I assume that bolded statement is not directed to me.
1) "ASR" is not synonymous with Amir Majidimehr. There definitely are ASR members that I choose to ignore.
2) I have sent to Amir 8 items to review to date, and I have posted measurements for 6 different electronic products too fragile to ship. I really value the approach to ASR yet I will also provide criticism/feedback/opinions as appropriate.
The most important tool for improving your listening experience is taking your own measurements. It is pretty clear that end-users have seen the value of measuring speakers in their own homes and doing their own room correction. The speaker tests here are a nice way to thin out the chaff from wheat, of course. I would say the same thing is true for electronics.
Accuphase has a very distinct vision which resonates or doesn't with potential customers. Customer service, reliability, repairability, longevity, safety, and country of manufacture are selling points for Accuphase. They are not selling points for everyone. Warehousing spare transistors, capacitors, knobs, doesn't really change costs whether you're dealing with a budget or flagship product -- and your warehouse has to be in a high cost of living environment.
It's probably appropriate to point out my review here:
@KSTR figured out that the left and right channels were swapped during recording! Presumably this must have been the case when listening too! The calculations had been done in stereo. This changes the numbers and shows smaller changes between amps when fed directly but still has a change...
www.audiosciencereview.com
Where two "blue class" amps that probably would be indistinguishable on the standard test suite do not actually measure identically with music.
With real music, repeat testing any given amp from day to day shows that the PK Metric is -120 dB -- so I'm not comparing two bad amps. A bad amp could have a lot of variability from one day to the next.
But I can hear differences and I can objectively document that the differences I can measure meet the threshold of audibility.