# General purchase advice: Ask your questions/for advice here! **URL:** \ **Category:** I need advice!\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/general-purchase-advice-ask-your-questions-for-advice-here/6620 "2020-05-18T17:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 961
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/general-purchase-advice-ask-your-questions-for-advice-here/6620/961 "2020-12-12T04:22:21Z")
> [@HeadphoneNoob](#): > > When I see someone really recommending something I go to ASR to really see if there’s any validity to it or strength and weakness of the product. > > I think the audio community really is relying on experience. In two ways, one you may love something and just stick that. @HeadphoneNoob, one of the things that some of us have been trying to explain deals with the _nature of experience_. A couple of years ago, I tried to explain this with an analogy. I’ll link to the post below. The point is that you need not simply _knowledge_ but you need to develop the understanding that comes with educating your EARS. Nobody is saying that making measurements - the focus of ASR- doesn’t show something. But it most certainly doesn’t show everything. It’s like judging a salad by the greenness of the lettuce. You can measure a whole lot about greenness. You can even posit that a salad that has little greenness won’t be very good. But it doesn’t tell you much about _taste_. Here’s the example I tried to use. If you’ve never really examined type, and you look at this, you will see things you never did before: > [@What are you upgrading?](https://forum.headphones.com/t/what-are-you-upgrading/1546/178): > > This is really a key question. It’s not just an audio question, it is how experience and training affect your reactions in many activities, and it’s a double-edged sword. When I was the product manager for an authoring and editorial system in the professional publishing space, I was ALWAYS looking for naive users. The more a user knew, the more they focused on advanced features, and the more adaptable they were. But it was important to get impressions and feedback from people who were using i… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.headphones.com/t/general-purchase-advice-ask-your-questions-for-advice-here/6620)._