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In Reply to: RE: Audio Science spends all of its time... posted by EdAInWestOC on August 21, 2019 at 06:09:37
That's right, my experience goes all the way back to the day. Lots of people agreed that "Julian Hirsch never heard a component he didn't like", (well at least he didn't report any). In other words a positive review wasn't take seriously by audiophiles, including me.Basically all you could take from a Hirsch review was that the design and performance of a product wasn't totally crap, but beyond that, not much. ASR's reviews are more in depth and I'd argue, relevant than Hirsch's back in the day. ASR's reviews are objective however but Amir doesn't claim that all components sound the same and he does often comment on the sound.
As for the Schiit Valhalla, I haven't heard it. Frankly if people like the Valhalla, perhaps they are just agreeing with Julian Hirsch that much distortion is inaudible and irrelevant. I don't have the opportunities to hear a series of devices before I make a purchase. In general if a component measures very will it will sound good, at least it will be clean, detailed, and transparent.
I personally value "clean, detailed, and transparent" well ahead of "warm, musical, and liquid" -- that's just me.
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But I immediately noticed he mentioned the fact that it is an old model. He then goes into detailed analysis on that old model and then draws conclusions on the product based on his tests. He also makes some comments that were not scientific at all.
The problem with all of this is that it is misleading. A reader could conclude that this review is some sort of conclusion that the Valhalla is some piece of crap and the cheap SS amp is some sort of great bargain.
The problem is he does not repeat that his conclusions are all on an old defunct product. If that were the case he would not draw the conclusions he drew and made the less than professional comments he made about the product.
It is not an honest review. I suspect its a personal opinion disguised as a scientific review. Maybe I missed it but I do not recall the part of the review where he listened to the amps in question and makes listening notes.
Without listening tests I find those sort of reviews as the kind of garbage that Stereo Review used to push out. It looks like science but how can it be science when it is a product that you listen to and no listening is done?
Odd science,
Ed
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See Amir's Valhalla 2 review at the link below; he admits that the revised model is better and may be recommended for high impedance 'phones if you like tube sound.
However he still doesn't feel that it is objectively the best choice, especially for low impedance 'phone, (like my Audio Technica's).
I'm very please at the moment with my JDS Atom amp. The sound is very cleaned, detailed, and dynamic. It is indeed a bargain IMHO.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
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