Audio Science Review Review

The whole thread is him threatening a hissy fit, if swine keep complaining about the pearls.

Something like this:

 

Amir: 'I don't want to spend "my own" money or time reviewing this product properly'

Also Amir: 'Please donate/support us on Patreon so we can provide you with these product reviews'

 

Checks out, Amir doesn't want to spend his own money but he's okay with using patreon money. Why does he need Patreon if he's such a successful businessman is an entirely different question.

 

There's different kinds of smart. @purr1n you're the kind of smart that leaves us better off for having you run this show. I am not sure one can say the same for Amir.

 

Haha, think it's more to do with what has been said before about Amir having greater business acumen and being able to put together a cash cow out of pink slime (as opposed to others who're in this hobby cuz audio gear can be fun, sometimes almost as much as listening to music).

 

Also "They are engineering tests manufacturers should be running but aren't".

Testing how devices behave under conditions well outside their actual operating windows isn't really engineering, either. I look forward to ASR's outrage on testing passenger elevators and discovering they will neither accommodate nor elevate brontosaurs.

 

Yup. Money and adulation are not the only measures.

 

Head-fi is mostly noobs and shills spinning around in circles like small dogs. Sound science is “everything sounds the same because we’re deaf.” Otherwise it’s flavor of the month bullshit.

Hydrogen Audio: “we don’t belief in human perception because we’re autistic”

Gearslutz is half retards and shills but the deaf guys are actually deaf and not just inattentive. They don’t confine objectivists to the short bus like head fi does.

ASR is Jonestown of audio forums. All the deaf, retards, objectivists, and old farts drank the Kool-Aid

 

See, one of the things I enjoy about this forum is that the ratio of actual substance to pablum is pretty high, at least compared to something like head-fi. I was scrolling through some headphone impressions on head-fi, and I swear I had to click through about twenty pages to find a substantive write-up on a headphone. SBAF has its share of tomfoolery, but in my experience its much easier to actually find something useful when you're deciding on whether to make a purchase.

 

And here it's rare to get interrogated for the mere reason of not likely the same toy that others are liking.
And when it happens, it's usually to help you solve some underlying problem that maybe the reason you get to your inaccurate conclusion about the said product.

 

I've always found that funny, talk about SBAF being taboo on HF, considering other fora don't seem to get the same treatment as far as I'm aware. I'm sure the postcards etc had something to do with that but at the same time there's a definite sense of CS/SBAF being perfectly willing to call sponsors doodoofaces upfront when they push bad product*

But yeah it's the same deal with hyperwealthy people IMO— earning money for a comfortable living with minimal effort is absolutely grand, I'd do the same if I could given what skills I have, but there's a point where it just feels like you have more than you could ever feasibly want or could possibly be healthy. I'm not sure certain other ostensibly science-first forum leaders see that there's a distinction to be made.

*grumbles about dishwashers*

*Erratum: see post below.

 

Misspoke, attention was divided debating if I should post in another thread, cough. Owning up to the mistake of saying you guys pooped on manufacturers rather than on bad gear that basically deserved it.

 

Qobuz is one of the only places selling mainstream music. If their payout system works like Sororityfy, it’s still not worth paying for because your money does not go to the artists you listen to or to paying off their advance unlike buying a physical release. Nobody should pay for Sororityfy. The 10 dollars does not go to the artists you listen to. It goes to trap and Taylor Swift. Because of inflation, you’re better off buying used CDs or even using YouTube.

 

Reviews =/= Science?

He should probably rename his forum to Audio Engineering Review to be self-consistent