Doug Schnieder from soundstage hifi chiming in on the Hegel Facebook group
Quite a bit of controversy on the H95 over on AudioScienceReview.com. For people interested, we have a far more comprehensive and we believe useful suite of measurements for the H95 published. Unfortunately, the folks at AudioScienceReview.com have decided to bring a lot of "subjectivity" into their measurement process -- basically, they seem to instilling their own beliefs of how products should get measured rather than taking a more experience, judicious, and insightful approach that focuses more on practical usage by a user. Furthermore, there seems to be a zealousness on that forum to practice "gotcha" methods (i.e., finding an issue an dwelling on it instead of reporting with perspective), as well as the foolish notion that amplifier measurements can be boiled down to just one parameter -- in their case, a SINAD measurement of 5W into 4 ohms. This could simply be due to inexperience when it comes to evaluating hi-fi products -- or some other reason. Nevertheless, Feel free to share this post and, also, look to our measurements, which are much more comprehensive than elsewhere. Our goal is to simply produce plentiful, unbiased measurements, letting the cards fall where they will. https://www.soundstagehifi.com/inde...el-music-systems-h95-integrated-amplifier-dac
It is interesting that he writes
Our goal is to simply produce plentiful, unbiased measurements, letting the cards fall where they will.
after he has attacked ASR measurement process. OK. However if we compare his measurements of amplifier section of H95 with
@amirm measurements , we can see almost same results
Same distortion, same difference in mains hum between the channels.
And again same. This is definitely
NOT a SOTA amplifier.
So he has, in fact, appraised ASR measurements
.
And let's not forget that
damping factor of 2000 (as per manufacturer...)