creativepart
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At the risk of being hounded off of ACR I'd like to post one opinion about what a new member here sees from day one.
1. It seems that Amir tests and only tests usually. In some of the tests I've seen and I think the Yiggy might be one, he states that he never listened to the equipment play music. OK. But we're interested in how these things sound. Good results on testing is good. Good sounding is better.
2. Test after test here is shown in comparison to a Topping dac. And, outside of ACR Topping is not a mainstream brand. Before coming here I'd NEVER heard of the brand. Period. If Topping is so good, why isn't everyone saying "Wow, that Topping Dac!" Why are there tests here of every Topping Dac and not everywhere else in the audio publishing world? Seems unusual, no? Why would any member of ACR own anything BUT a Topping dac, looking at these reviews and these prices?
3. Vast portions of the audio review and publishing industry is based on the idea that measurements are only one data point. That critical listening to the equipment being reviewed is vital as well. This is why Stereophile splits the two things in their reviews and Absolute Sound has no measurements at all. Here that seems to be ridiculed or certainly depreciated.
4. Some brands here are universally vilified - over and over - and other brands, many of them little known, are praised - over and over. Doesn't mean that the vilified brands are not really bad or that the praised brands are not actually that good. But it does appear suspect from the outside. It may only be a perception, but there it is. Surely objective regulars here can see this?
I'm agnostic on these things. I've not heard any Schitt or Topping equipment. I can't tell you if one is good and the other bad. I'm only saying what a new member sees here when they join and start to read the testing reviews.
1. It seems that Amir tests and only tests usually. In some of the tests I've seen and I think the Yiggy might be one, he states that he never listened to the equipment play music. OK. But we're interested in how these things sound. Good results on testing is good. Good sounding is better.
2. Test after test here is shown in comparison to a Topping dac. And, outside of ACR Topping is not a mainstream brand. Before coming here I'd NEVER heard of the brand. Period. If Topping is so good, why isn't everyone saying "Wow, that Topping Dac!" Why are there tests here of every Topping Dac and not everywhere else in the audio publishing world? Seems unusual, no? Why would any member of ACR own anything BUT a Topping dac, looking at these reviews and these prices?
3. Vast portions of the audio review and publishing industry is based on the idea that measurements are only one data point. That critical listening to the equipment being reviewed is vital as well. This is why Stereophile splits the two things in their reviews and Absolute Sound has no measurements at all. Here that seems to be ridiculed or certainly depreciated.
4. Some brands here are universally vilified - over and over - and other brands, many of them little known, are praised - over and over. Doesn't mean that the vilified brands are not really bad or that the praised brands are not actually that good. But it does appear suspect from the outside. It may only be a perception, but there it is. Surely objective regulars here can see this?
I'm agnostic on these things. I've not heard any Schitt or Topping equipment. I can't tell you if one is good and the other bad. I'm only saying what a new member sees here when they join and start to read the testing reviews.