Probably not the word you meant. I think you might be looking for the principle of charity?
In this case they probably collapse to the same thing. Hence Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The character and track record of folks in the audiophile community who claim to have "proven" all kinds of impossible things and immediately jump to trying to separate you from your money leads me to assume dishonesty. Maybe that's unfair. AFAIK Josh is not selling something except faith in his golden ears.
Disagree. The most obvious reason is he has the most golden of ears and his system is resolving enough.
Take note that in that ASR thread, the differences that allowed successful ABX results are thought to be in the filters. In particular there is a lot of passband ripple seen. Then at the end of the thread there are straight up filter comparisions (not with DACs).
DAC listening test files - updated with new filters files
UPDATED - NEW TEST FILES, September 21 / 2026 Hello all, after a short break that was needed to prepare and test new files, there is a link to new set of test files. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15aR4OTuDIHystUynvuWIpBiVoj0p2zEe/view?usp=sharing The test files were prepared by...
Absolutely, the principles of parsimony and charity, as well as the razors of Occam and Hanlon, all collapse to one irreducible, irrefutable point: Y'all are nerds who listen to music by reading data sheets and can't listen for yourself.
I bet you could have this one for the postage. It's scrap.
LOL never saw an inexpensive one for sale. What would Arnie Krueger say?
I can easily hear it without music playing with the IEM in my ears. With music playing, i can still here it but to less extent. With the latter, it is harder to distinguish the differences in the clicks.
Indeed. Level of static is very high if you use high gain on the headphone amp and lower on the source. With no zero crossing logic for the switching, the waveforms suddenly change, causing spray of harmonics that is heard as static.
Indeed. My AP has relays but they are so faint compared to the loud thunk that you get with AVA.
The America-specific context is that Yogi Berra was an American baseball player from the mid century who was famous for his malapropisms. They often contained a kernel of wisdom, but were frequently contradictory or absurd.
No but I feel as if this review is different and has additional scrutiny and importance.
So were you expecting Amir to go out and spend $1k-$2k on a mic just for this test?
Well they both work as one is the derivative of the other just more general and more common in scientific culture.
Haven't noticed anything unique about this one myself. OTOH additional scrutiny/importance is something that should be associated with test gear. How did Alstine amps measure?
The simple fact that after getting such results he didn't favor another explanation is a good clue he's got a confirmation bias.
