I am sure you have seen the brutal review in Audio Science review. Thoughts? I know these guys are numbers only guys, but dang!
Forget about “Audio Science Review”. I put the site in quotes for a reason. It’s junk. Doesn’t mean there aren’t valuable members there, there are, but Amir and the others who post “scientific” reviews is just jubbish content. Waste of your time to read. No good scientist or engineer would ever publish that and hope it’s credible.
What they do is start with the end in mind, which is always a version of ‘high priced AV gear is for wealthy fools… we will show you why’. They then proceed to conduct “measurements” to prove their hypothesis. This is the wrong approach. You don’t start with the goal in mind and seek to get data to prove it. A finance professor at Harvard once told us that ”you can make a spreadsheet show any conclusion you want”.
With the Tune Tots, he measured at the wrong place. He did not measure between the drivers, despite Wilson clearly stating where they measured to get their frequency response plot.
The gospel at ASR is that measurements tell all - and a $1K amp with .0000001% distortion is going to sound better than a $50K amp which doesn’t measure as well. Total BS. It’s a group of ignorant people who use ASR to justify why their lower priced gear is not inferior to the best. ’nough said!