most audio forums are just like you described, especially oldschool ones like audioasylum. Biggest/best 2 examples would be headfi & audiophilestyle, where it's forbidden to even mention tests/DBTs in the 'normal' threads.ASR is very much a breath of fresh air compared to many other audio forums and I think most of us prefer things kept that way.
An example... a forum I would often frequent many years ago had a resident "golden ears" that members would actually send their amps (often expensive too) to for a listening "test", after which time the member would post a few pages of impressions and comments about the amp for the member who sent it and the forum in general. They were only listened to... with comparison comments, yet they were not compared AB let alone blind. In fact the amps he would "compare" the current amp to would not even be in his possession anymore. To me it was a completely useless exercise... and strangely many of the "tested" amps would end up in the FS section not long at high prices for 2nd hand after, with a referral to the "test" post as evidence of it being a fine amp. In fact many members actually relied on this list to make purchasing decisions... and the forum then had sponsors. To make it worse, the person was actually very pleasant and really believed in what they were doing after years of raking amps this way, thus due to this "experience" felt he was in a position to conduct such single "tests".
Now if anyone asked are any of these amps AB compared at least, or any kind of actual testing done on them, or pointing out the folly of same... their posts would be removed and a note sent asking the member to refrain from posting such things as it was against the spirit of the forum, regardless of seniority or join date and regardless of time consuming contributions to the forum itself. ASR is basically the bizarro world opposite of forums like that... a decent place where those attitudes are in the minority based on factual information and real published data.
JSmith
And then you have a few in the ~middle like sbaf and headphones.com (or at least they try/pretend to be). And quite a lot of 'cacophonies' like reddit/discord/facebook groups.
The only forum I know to be quite close to ASR is hydrogenaudio. They are even more vocal/strict about things like "DBT or it did not happen". And it's ~deserted nowadays.
They do not have someone like Amir to feed an inhuman amount of info/tests. And those strict, hyper-skepticism policies drove people away. When you only accept DBTed posts, you only have one per month...
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