He speaks like an American from the middle south of the country. There is a slight accent. If we presume that Australians have accent(s) relative to those in the central USA, he would be someone I'd pick to contrast with an Australian. Is the presumption among ASR members that Erin is presenting his actual favorites, or that it is likely or possible he is acting as an agent with commercial and marketing intentions? Maybe there is no pure position. Well, we know there is in this world a pure commercial and marketing intention and we are all swamped with that every day.
I've followed Erin for a couple of years now and his intentions certainly seem honest enough. He invested over $100,000 of his own money into a robot that measures other peoples' speakers. If you totaled the views from every monetized YouTube video he's ever published, would the gross revenue total even 10% of that? I doubt it. He enjoys a minute fraction of the views that many of the "big" audiophile channels do...you know, the ones that offer practically zero objective information outside of what can be quickly pulled from a manufacturer's marketing materials.
Then there's the significant hours of Erin's time that's spent in coordinating speaker shipments, performing a battery of Klippel measurements for each speaker, recording and editing each video, writing up the website articles, etc, etc ,etc. People can believe what they wish, but I certainly don't see the goal of the channel as some sort of profit center.
And with all due respect to Amir, the title of this video doesn't pass muster as click-bait to me. Click-bait implies some level of deception, and IMHO the content of the video delivered on the title just fine.
It would be useful to include a list of the other speakers that were excluded from the Top 5.
Here you go:
The Sound of Science
www.erinsaudiocorner.com
I was pleasantly surprised by the sound of PSB Passif 50. Too bad Erin never measured it.
