How ASR and (a few) others are slowly re-shaping audio reviewing and the Hi-Fi market at large

[FrantzM]

Hi

Thanks to ASR and a few others, some on the market are taking manufacturers to task with respect to their claims... These people are slowly, but surely beginning to require independent and repeatable measurements ... Not the trust-me it sounds good from reviewers... No! The Facts!!

Independent Measurements Are Triggering Shutdowns and Sales Losses Across Legacy Audio Brands​

 

[Keith_W]

Your link (if there is one) doesn't work.

 

[Morla]

And who are the few others again?

 

[staticV3]

And who are the few others again?

In the article OP is referring to, Erin and Goldensound are also accredited.

 

[Morla]

Leads to headphonesty wasn't that the site with AI articles we shouldn't link to?

Please do not link to headphonesty site

Hello everyone. While we have a very generous policy as far as linking to other sites, it has been brought to my attention that content on headphonesty . com is mostly AI generated and clickbait. So I have changed the forum software to block references to the site.

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

[Gary_G]

This is an online article posted yesterday on Headphonesty.

 

[FrantzM]

Yeah.. I forgot that the system seems to reject things from them Headphonesty.. Doesn't seem to be AI generated ...

" https://www.****************/2026/01/measurements-triggering-shutdowns-losses-audio-brands/"

 

[FrantzM]

It is being actively removed ... so there Sorry folks but check it out on their site worth the read

 

[Ropeburn]

Read the article. Essentially it says manufacturers can no longer hide bad performance behind bold claims, because independent, repeatable measurements by the likes of ASR, EAC and GoldenSound that are easily accessible for everyone have changed the market in a way that's making it impossible to ignore and hide bad performance not matching your flowery marketing.

Sounds good but not really something new. Neither appears to be written by a human, very cold text. Who woulda thunk it. And of course the comments attract the usual suspects, as always:

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[GiBo61]

Interesting article about "The Measurement Revolution". The contribution of ASR it clearly recognized in the text.

 

[HoweSound]

Link?

 

[respice finem]

Sure, the measurements are the culprit, not the industry's shenanigans

The demise of the audio industry began long before...

 

[TimoJ]

Isn't headphonesty site (where the "article" is from) mostly just AI generated text?

 

[respice finem]

and semi-banned here

 

[Bruce Morgen]

Isn't headphonesty site (where the "article" is from) mostly just AI generated text?

This particular article seems to have a human author -- from Romania according to a head-phi.org profile for "Alex P" -- named "Alexandra Plesa", but the link to a Twitter/X account on her bio page doesn't work, so she might be a particularly polished AI creation. The article isn't all that bad -- not a hit job AFAICT.

 

[Beave]

There was a thread about this article earlier today (or last night), seen here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...eviewing-and-the-hi-fi-market-at-large.68925/

@RickS , can you please merge these two threads?

As for that website, yes, it's highly suspect. It uses AI to write at least some of the articles, maybe even the majority of them. Several of the supposed authors are suspect. And what's worse, they've used AI to create several audio-related cartoons that are blatant rip-offs of audio cartoons from decades ago in Stereo Review.

So please think twice about giving them clicks. Just because they sometimes get things right, or say nice things about this site, isn't enough to justify supporting their other awful behavior.

 

[TimoJ]

This particular article seems to have a human author -- from Romania according to a head-phi.org profile for "Alex P" -- named "Alexandra Plesa", but the link to a Twitter/X account on her bio page doesn't work, so she might be a particularly polished AI creation. The article isn't all that bad -- not a hit job AFAICT.

Seems to be a very active "human" author, just check out "Read More from Alexandra Plesa"...

 

[Beave]

Seems to be a very active "human" author, just check out "Read More from Alexandra Plesa"...

Based on what I've seen online, this author has an amazing, incredible, almost impossibly solid grasp of an amazing, incredible, vast range of topics.

It's truly impressive how she cranks out so many audio-related articles, yet still has time to also be an expert author in so many other topic areas.

She's a modern day polymath.

Either that, or she uses AI to write a bunch of slop.

 

[Mart68]

Audio magazines are not written by AI (yet) but still have a lot of 'slop' and incorrect information. Not really sure if it actually matters who or what wrote it, just whether the content is accurate or not.

 

[Fahzz]

In the article OP is referring to, Erin and Goldensound are also accredited.

Archimago should also be mentioned.