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Since the percentage was quoted from a US based news source that is what I went with. If you have any valid information or facts to contribute, please feel free to do so. Even an opinion or personal observations would be useful. Or just continue to throw out random, barely related thoughts...

That comment was purely my person take on it. Since he addressed my 'speaking for most people' that would indicate it was a response to the first part of my post. I wasn't trying to extrapolate anything into consumer sentiment, I just added my own experience with movies. Percentages aren't...

If it wasn't the case with 'most' people then the AVR industry would be thriving and companies would continually be trying to improve their offerings to compete. Since it is not, then that is a clear indication that it isn't that important to most people. I don't have to have a unique talent...

When it comes to movie sound, for a very large percentage of people, good enough is... good enough. For most, it just isn't worth that much effort. A sound bar with a subwoofer can vibrate things and make it feel like the sound is immersive enough. For all the people that equate good sound...

mine usually look more like this:

A side question, what is the best way to sell them? Especially if you don't have a tester? I'd assume to get good money they would need to be sold with test results. And even then just jumping into it with no reputation seems like it could be hard to get top dollar.

What are other people supposed to DBT against when they are challenged to it here? Use that.

At that point we are throwing all things science out the window and blindly accepting any data that enforces your hypothesis. The same thing happens pretty much any time someone posts that they bought equipment that tests well and says it sounds so much better than their old equipment. The...

It seems more absurd to say all of them in the entire world, except one are garbage. I do appreciate the fact that you chose not to quote my line about "accept them until each individual one is proved to be ineffective". Just dismissing the ones that don't agree with a hypotheses does not...

I still say it comes down to either all sighted, subjective reviews are useless or not. Either we dismiss them all outright or we accept them until each individual one is proved to be ineffective. Either a salesman telling someone to listen for something specific is a valid listening...

Yet, they are accepted without question. If anyone else posted a comment on how any component sounded they would be immediately asked if it was a double blind test. If they replied no, it would be dismissed. And if they told us that someone told them how it would sound before they listened...

There is little, if any, difference between one part of Amir's and the Stereophile reviews. That is the only part of his reviews that I'm talking about. It could also easily be argued that some Stereophile reviewers are a 'known quantity' and should also qualify as trained listeners...

And yet I still don't see anyone questioning the reviews here that included sighted listening after measuring. Are we limited to just one person on the planet at a time that is able to do that without any bias?

Outside of Consumer Reports, there aren't a lot of publications that anonymously buy all the products they test. Anybody that doesn't do that will always know, while they are doing the review, that the company and others will be more likely to send them products to review if their reviews...

I think they mean that they don't review equipment that they won't like. They choose to review things that they are pretty sure they will like at least somewhat. I'm honestly fine with that. I read them for entertainment and I prefer to read positive things, so if they pass on the stuff...

I think they had a nice niche as a slightly more expensive, underperforming subwoofer. Which can be a decent niche because an underperforming sub can be much easier to integrate into a system and room with minimal effort; and that can make customers happier with it and thus, for them, it is a...

Note to self, buy stock in hearing aid manufactures. I still have flashbacks to actual ear pain when having speakers demoed months ago. My wife was fine with spending way more than I ever thought on speakers, but instead we went home with nothing but a headache.

It turns out that the people that didn't like them were just using the wrong cables