The most difficult part of posting to ASR is knowing whether or not you should. I just poured red wine into my cognac glass, so take the below for what it’s worth…
You’re certainly passionate, but your line of argumentation is not coherent and lacks logic.
This has been brought up before, and the general consensus is that yes, the “S” is ASR is a bit of a reach. There is no science being conducted here. Science is the search for knowledge about the natural world (sorry to all of you in the Humanities). What ASR is doing is much more on the engineering test & verification and also the consumer advocacy side. Basically, the ASR reviews try to turn stones and watch the cockroaches shooting out.
No, testing is entirely empirical. I think you are confusing “anecdotal” with “empirical”. But yes, testing procedures are always flawed is some way, and if readers are concerned that those flaws affect the test outcome they are welcome to critique (not dismiss) the procedures or, better yet, put up their own test procedures and findings.
I think you mean, they say not all DUTs but all DUTs with inaudible flaws sound the same. This is a tautology. There were DUTs with audible flaws and they did not sound the same. Also a tautology.
This does not follow at all. The reason this forum exists is that there are unscrupulous charlatans luring wide-eyed and cashed-up buyers into spending their money on junk.
Not all devices sound the same. Not all devices measure the same. But they sound the same long before they measure the same. The only caveat being, do we always have good idea what to measure (not: can we measure it).
Another non sequitur. Just because people buy stuff doesn’t mean the stuff has any objective merit or usefulness.
That’s right, be guided by facts, not hear-say.
Again, be guided by facts, not hear-say. It’s always worthwhile to ask questions, but this seems like a rhetorical one. The actual answer to this question will probably surprise you and is not going to reassert the notion you held when you asked.
Science is not about chasing and nurturing anecdotes. It is about collecting dependable evidence and using that to falsify hypotheses.
We’re not living in caves anymore because we have learned to go by the evidence where it matters, or else be doomed.