In case you missed it, Golden is still going to do the test live on stream. The ad revenue from that stream will be donated to the charity fund of Golden's choice,
Miracle-Ear Foundation.
If you find approval from Amir/ASR important before you can accept the outcome if the result is positive (Golden passes the test), then I suppose you'll never know. Amir bailed on the opportunity to have someone he trusts present at throughout the testing process to verify legitimacy of the test beyond what can be captured on video, allowing more room for interpretation and more opportunities to consider the provided evidence to be inconclusive. Given how this situation has evolved, I doubt Amir/ASR will accept the results of this test as valid in case Golden succeeds.
We'll see how this turns out, and how the audiophile community + media will respond to it. ASR choosing not to cooperate will likely
raise some eyebrows though.