Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit

@rbstehno Thankyou. I don’t watch videos, I prefer written words, so what you say I cannot comment on.

This is a copy and paste of a few select quotes written by Amir. I have no comment as to whether a grudge or any manner of hostility may be written into it - that is for the reader to interpret with a sense of due process and common sense.

Rick was kind enough to post process mine to his resolution and chart dimensions and correlation was good.

I say be careful with waterfall displays. It is so easy to lie with them. Or misuse them (intentionally or not).

Ah, little giant killers... who doesn’t want to see an underdog win?

I know some may say I am biased to not like GR Research stuff. But I have given positive marks to another speaker kit of his. Importantly, I back my opinion with measurements and science/engineering of the design, not empty boasting. All the arrows point to the same thing. This speaker is simply a bad idea. Had the company spent time measuring distortion and getting feedback from others with better hearing, they would have no doubt gotten the feedback that the design was not feasible.

A fully finished pair costs $1,038. I am inclined to think that is relevant in the circumstances (what is their intended use?) and to keep the arrow straight.

Most of you are responding like petulant children that don't like what someone else says. Guess what, it's an opinion, you don't have to draw anything from his conclusions or opinions about how they measure, the graphs are useful for people who like quantifying what speakers or amplifiers do and don't do. It's a resource to use. Most of you honestly act like bose people which is sad, and you all could do the audio community good by not seeming so snobbish

I watched the video and Amir is a story teller.  He does not just present the measurements he tells us if they are good or bad.  His interpretations of the measurements appear highly subjective.  In this and other reviews he discounts certain measurements when they don't fit his narrative.  

And the comments, his cult of followers getting their schadenfreude rush.

These days when I google reviews for an audio product and links come back for ASR, I just ignore them. I’ve read enough ASR reviews to know how little they correlate to the actual sound of audio gear....and music itself.

Reviewers like that spew graphs and numbers but rarely even try to articulate what they hear when they listen to the item under review. IMO the worst is when they promote measurements & stats as a complete replacement for the subjective listening experience. Human hearing just doesn’t work that way.

Then there’s the fact that several ASR reviews have been rather thoroughly debunked, establishing a pattern of bias and incompetence by their reviewer.

I don’t like it when people pose as audio gurus whose statements explain everything and must be believed in toto. I don’t drink that koolaid...

spouted out his typical BS for his audiophile hating audience to consume as gospel. 

Yup. You nailed it! Will just one phrase.