Amir, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't:

[Jinjuku]

Miska is complaining that you are testing cheap Chinese made/origin DAC's:

"A bit too focused on cheap Chinese gear and focusing too much on SINAD figures. I rarely bother to take a look there anymore. Not really interested in gazillionth measurements of some strange brand ESS Sabre based DAC."

 

[raistlin65]

Why do we care if we are confident in Amir's measurements and how we are using them for DAC choice? There is nothing in that gripe that discredits that.

 

[tomissoawesome]

This post is in Audiophile Style's new, separate but equal Objective-Fi subforum. (Background here.) I guess there the objectivists are viewed as the noise and the subjectivists the signal. Rarely read much there besides mitchco. Though every once in a while ogling the eye candy equipment is fun.

 

[DonH56]

Amir tests what Amir gets. Miska should send him some high-end gear to test if he wants to see more. Guess he's ignoring the myriad of inexpensive gear that measures as well or better...

 

[direstraitsfan98]

Who’s Miska?

 

[Purité Audio]

Software salesman.
Keith

 

[Darkweb]

Are we men or 7th grade girls?

 

[tomtoo]

 

[Koeitje]

Objective-Fi is a weird name for a subforum. It should be named Hi-Fi, and the rest of their board My-Fi.

 

[Old Listener]

That thread on Objective-Fi shows that ASR is creating a stir in the audiophile community. Chris wants some of the Objectivist action. He is hwever offended by wgscott's suggestion that Audiophile Style lacks "deliberative, dispassionate discourse". His reaction to wgscott's post is telling.

wgscott

• Hindsight is 2020
• 

Posted 14 hours ago
I have to admit I do get the creeps from the avatars they have.

But it is kind of cool to see that deliberative, dispassionate discourse still exists on the internet, and that not all audio-related sites have degenerated into the functional equivalent of goop.com

The Computer Audiophile

• Founder Audiophile Style
• 

Posted 14 hours ago
Prof. Scott, I thought you wanted your account nuked here?

I understand your frustration / anger but I think this thread is a purposeful kick in the nuts to me. I’m not offended but it feels more hurtful than anything.

I like to stick it to the man whenever possible, as much as you, but I’m not the man, man.

 

[Deleted member 9286]

Any forum that is monetised will likely never be completely objective.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Any forum that is monetised will likely never be completely objective.

Yes this. Chris has monetized and can't follow his own path anymore. Has to follow the money.

 

[Spocko]

Objective-Fi is a weird name for a subforum. It should be named Hi-Fi, and the rest of their board My-Fi.

My vote for post of the day.

 

[Spocko]

Yes this. Chris has monetized and can't follow his own path anymore. Has to follow the money.

Lots of free Chi-Fi gear if he starts hyping them! Imagine what he could do with a closet of $150 DACs

 

[beefkabob]

We should start a subjective-fi area here. All new people can post there.

 

[sergeauckland]

We should start a subjective-fi area here. All new people can post there.

I can't 'unlike' without liking first, and I don't!!

 

[Soniclife]

We should start a subjective-fi area here. All new people can post there.

We can call it Sub-Fi.

 

[Hugo9000]

Objective-Fi is a weird name for a subforum. It should be named Hi-Fi, and the rest of their board My-Fi.

Is it a coincidence how close Objective-Fi is to objectify?

ob·jec·ti·fy
/əbˈjektəˌfī/

verb
1. degrade to the status of a mere object.

Which members contributed most to that controversial enormous thread that drove so much traffic to that site? (No, I don't mean the other controversial enormous thread that is just an echo chamber within a chunk of the core membership of the site and its sponsors lmao (no dissent or evidence allowed haha)! I mean the one that had writers and editors of fanzines/webzines in an uproar, and brought new eyes and advert $$$ to the site.)

They served their purpose, and now they can be tossed aside.

 

[doodlebro]

Sounds more like he's making commentary on the way that Amir's reviews are used unrealistically... That's us, not Amir.

This board definitely has a culture problem regarding the way it interprets Amir's reviews... Too much worship and not enough "Hey, how does that work out in the real world?"

 

[Thomas savage]

Miska can have a refund.