"For no valid reason," you say? The animosity you mention, at least mine, is definitely not directed toward anyone who "reads the stuff at ASR," as you claim here. I have read some of that stuff myself despite my growing distaste. I also do not have any animosity against anyone who does not hear any differences in DACS, anymore than I harbor animosities toward "colorblind" people for not seeing colors that I can see.
My personal animosity is directed against people who do not know how to filter what they've read over there in anyway, and take the stuff like some kind of "gospel," and go around proselytizing like Amirm's disciples. They regurgitate those ideas without any discrimination without showing any personal sense of discernment whatsoever, preaching them, and pretending on the basis of what they've read there, to be "experts" of all audio technology that has been "measured" there. They behave a bit like the "Jehovah's witnesses" of Amirm's site, trashing equipment that he trashes, and praising those that his praises, and regurgitating whatever he says, I would like to say "like sheep," except that I wouldn't like to insult sheep. Seduced by the "measurements" which they automatically assimilate to "science," they have never stopped to examine the integrity of the conditions in which they're taken or ask how the validity of the big leap from those measurements to interpretations of sound quality should be adjudicated.
I have no quarrel with. whatever stuff people like to read in their on their own time, whether that is the bible, the qu'ran, the teachings of Confucius or Buddha, or Amirm's ASR, but if you come knocking on my door every weekend trying to shove those teachings down my throat, are you saying i have no right to complain or protest?
Translation : If you personally don't hear any differences in DACs, and opt to get the cheapest and smallest one on the market on the basis of measurements you have seen on ASR or wherever, then more power to you, ( I have to wonder though, what purpose measurements serve, if they have no bearing on what one hears. I still won't quarrel with you, because it is just a hobby, and everyone has the right to buy whatever pleases them).
But the fact that you do not hear differences in DACs, or see any color differences, should not give you the right to go around ridiculing and pouring scorn on those who do. It does not give your the right to act as if those who like to spend their money to get the best sound or enjoy the most luxuriant array of colors they can afford, are in some way foolish or idiotic. It is that type of proselytizing arrogance based on a bogus interpretation of measurements--measurements that one has the added arrogance to call "science"--that I personally consider to be deservedly reprehensible.
If you come trashing my $2K+ DAC, which you have never even heard, just because you think your $99 DAC is as good, or even better-sounding on the basis of some measurements you have seen on ASR, then i reserve the right not only to challenge what you think, but even not to make you feel particularly welcome, especially if the proselytizing gets to be too annoying, as they often do, all too quickly.
Speaking of annoying and arrogant proselytizing, the recent postings of
@wiz2596 and his taunting of others, in the name of the modi 3 and the khadas to which he was singing hymns of praise, constitute only the most recent example, among tens of others (hundreds of others if one takes other forums and sites into account)... Yes, ASR is not simply satisfied with churning out its famous measurements and judgments, it also sends out armies of disciples and willing volunteers to troll other forums and sites. There is no other way to describe it. In the light of this type of trolling and harassment, do you still maintain that the animosity that sometimes greats their incursions have "no valid reason"?
