The founding of ASR

[pozz]

They should make one completely out of wood and send it to ASR for testing.

One of the first reviews on ASR: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ignal-grounding-preliminary-measurements.476/

 

[LumbermanSVO]

I was working on my electronics desk and it was so cluttered. Went to push things aside to make room. Something toppled it and the head became disconnected. The break was clean so I was going to glue it back on but then testing something that didn't perform well. Got the idea of using it for that purpose and here we are.

This reminds me of a story. I used to be an installer at Car Toys and one day a woman came in with here Civic to get a new radio. I got in the car and it had a bunch of toys glued to the top of the dash. I pulled the car in and as I got out I noticed that one in the corner was a Hula Girl. I knew what a Hula Girl was, but had never seen one in real life, so I tapped it's head to see it wobble. I tapped it too hard, it fell face first out of the car and the head broke off. Damn.

So I found the salesguy, told him what happened, and we found the woman waiting in the back of the store. She was on the phone but stopped her conversation so we could tell her what I'd done. After telling her, she put the phone back up to her face and said into it with a glorious comedic Wisconsin accent, "Oh no! We had a hula incident!" I had to walk away to avoid laughing in front of her. That salesguy greeted me what that line the rest of the time I worked there.

 

[Frank Dernie]

I would like to thank @amirm too. I joined fairly early on and find this pretty well the only hifi forum worth reading.
As it has got bigger there has been the odd exasperation, I have Asperger's, but overall it is far more polite than anywhere else, and being fact based is spectacularly less irritating than all the others.
Bravo.

 

[Thomas savage]

I would like to thank @amirm too. I joined fairly early on and find this pretty well the only hifi forum worth reading.
As it has got bigger there has been the odd exasperation, I have Asperger's, but overall it is far more polite than anywhere else, and being fact based is spectacularly less irritating than all the others.
Bravo.

I think ' less irritating ' is high praise , It's rewarding to read this so thanks .

 

[pavuol]

I think I'll post longer reply to the thread "what you think makes Audiosciencereview (ASR) great" later.
But for now shortly, to me, you guys are like "audio philantropists", showing also to "mere mortals" that good performing gear don't have to cost you a fortune and on the other hand, many expensive products are not an object to envy. Like some Audio branch of transparency international , demystifying somehow distorted market/industry.

 

[Berwhale]

So I set off to find the first posts - and now give up....

Post '4' is the first one I could find, I assume 1,2 & 3 have been deleted...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/4

 

[North_Sky]

The only way youll get close to HeadFi is, well.. you won't. They arent science people. I'd like to think the surround sound guys are though, being the whole pro audio and rack mount type etc

• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/head-fi.org

☆ https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com

 

[MRC01]

... Glad the important stuff is here now: Speaker and audio device measurements! This is to speakers as InnerFidelity WAS to headphones. ... I miss Tyll.

Many of us miss him. Sadly, InnerFidelity has lost its way without him. At least he's having fun in "retirement".
There is some great headphone info here, as well as links to measurements on several other sites, one of which is diyaudioheaven, run by one of the active ASR members here.
Jude at head-fi has a good headphone measurement rig and occasionally posts detailed measurements, which is useful.

 

[North_Sky]

• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/innerfidelity.com

• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com
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• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/diyaudio.com

• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/audiokarma.org

• https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stereophile.com

 

[Blumlein 88]

Post '4' is the first one I could find, I assume 1,2 & 3 have been deleted...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/4

This was an early thread.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...puter-activity-can-impact-dac-performance.22/

 

[Berwhale]

This was an early thread.

The first 10 threads that still exist are...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/4 - When 12 Gauge Wire is Not 12 Gauge
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/5 - Room Measurement Tutorial for Dummies Part 1
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/6 - Room Measurement Tutorial for Dummies Part 2
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/8 - Critical (Best) Music Tracks for Speaker and Room EQ Testing
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/9 - Inside of an Audio/Video Receiver (AVR)
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/10 - High Performance PC Server Interfaces (Async USB)
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/11 - Yet another look at Jitter: Clock Extraction
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/12 - Target Room Response and Cinema X-curve
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/13 - High Resolution Audio: Does It Matter?
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/14 - Computer Optimization of Room Acoustics

I'm guessing this is your 1st post...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/50 - Excited to see this forum go live

 

[Sal1950]

I'm guessing this is your 1st post...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/posts/50 - Excited to see this forum go live

Wow, that one reminds me, today is the 4th anniversary of my joining ASR
Ain't you luck @amirm ? LOL
Congrat's on the success of the site buddy!

 

[pozz]

Jude at head-fi has a good headphone measurement rig and occasionally posts detailed measurements, which is useful.

I really value those measurements when they're available. Though I'm often irritated that they haven't made an effort to compile them in a single place. Google ends up being the best way to look them up.

 

[iLoveCats]

The only way you'll get close to AVS is testing more AVRs and having a (more structured) multichannel forum subsection or a sister forum called HTSR.

The only way youll get close to HeadFi is, well.. you won't. They arent science people. I'd like to think the surround sound guys are though, being the whole pro audio and rack mount type etc

Surround sound guys are not science people. I go round and round with people on the facebook groups that rave about their AVR's. The NAD facebook group loves the t758 v3

 

[Lbstyling]

Amir mentioned DIYAudio is ahead in traffic. I don't think that will be for long. I have been a member for a very long time, and have had a love for it for all that time, but far too much of the attitude of members there now is just bitter. Its so sad. Too many of them have a back story in audio of good but failed equipment companies or dead end Foo products.

There are many many good members still of course. There was a great breakout for quite some time to places like 'HT guide Forums' but this died away quite some time ago for some reason. A site like this one was painfully overdue. Thank you so much Amir, you have no idea what it means to many of us what you have done here.

 

[Lavawood]

I agree! Thank you for doing this work! I’ve been an enthusiast for 30 years and this lifts a veil from audio hyperbole that will surely welcome many more people to the hobby. I’m giving tone boards and atoms as gifts now, I just found this site last week. I can’t wait until more of the higher end gear gets reviewed.

 

[North_Sky]

Amir mentioned DIYAudio is ahead in traffic. I don't think that will be for long. I have been a member for a very long time, and have had a love for it for all that time, but far too much of the attitude of members there now is just bitter. Its so sad. So many of them have a back story in audio of failed equipment companies and dead end Foo products.

There are many many good members still of course. There was a great breakout for quite some time to places like 'HT guide Forums' but this died away quite some time ago for some reason. A site like this one was painfully overdue. Thank you so much Amir, you have no idea what it means to many of us what you have done here.

It has been some time for me ... DIYAudio.
You seem to know more than I about the people who have been there for a long time.
My experience is positive from the time I was more active. The site is ranking pretty good compared to the majority. I see ASR in that positive bracket even with less members.
When ASR will get more people aware of it they'll be in good company with the good people of DIYAudio. ...IMHO