I hate people.
Yeah, because what you "hear" is total unrelated to any sort physical phenomena, or external factors at all. I guess audio equipment works on the principle of magic or something. You put on a record and the sounds magically appear inside your head. All the electricity, speakers vibrating et cetera is irrelevant. It is actually magic. And everyone knows that belt-driven turntables from Europe have the most power magic of all which is why they sound better. The magic doesn't work on machines I guess, so whatever it is they are recording is totally irrelevant.
Those DACs that measure well and seem to do what they are supposed to? I've never used one, but I see no reason to conclude that they are "******". I've never heard a NOS filterless DAC, but I am pretty sure they are ******. They flagrantly disregard the theoretical basis for the construction of the such a device. Even it sounded "fine" I would still call it a POS. Aside: I am only going to refer to NOS DACs as "POS DACs". I am pretty stupid and know nothing about signal processing. I don't pretend to understand how oversampling works. I am reasonably sure that it provides many benefits without downside—unless you are too lazy/cheap to implement it.
Yeah, taking measurements and then posting them is "trashing" another product. It is 100% Amir's fault that some products have measurements that aren't as objectively good as other products.
I'm going to look at the Topping DAC reviews, but I am pretty fairly sure this is BS. I guess I am part of the "cult". I don't even think this forum exhibits a high degree of "group think"—unless "reasoning from evidence" and logic are now somehow highly ideological.
I hate people.