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oxric wrote:

But I take issue with your often used accusation that other audiophiles are using faulty methodology and their conclusions are null and void. I do not think anyone has ever questioned this stance of yours and the more you make this accusation uncorrected, the more you will perpetuate the myth that there is only ONE valid methodology and everything else is invalid. First of all the issue of correct methodology is only ever assessed with respect to the objectives one is striving for, and  for many audiophiles, that necessarily entails achieving an improvement in terms of sonic results. Unless someone is blatantly violating some basic tenet, such as examining the results on an oscilloscope but not switching on and listening to the equipment, I think most people with a modicum  of intelligence will use the methodology you advocate although they will see  no need to spell it out for all and sunder. Secondly, irrespective of what you claim, methodology, as you well know coming from an engineering or scientific background, can have different objectives at different stages of a project. If you are  building a bridge, you will probably select in the early stages materials on the basis of generic principles rather than investigating how they will perform in the specific application. With electricity that makes even more sense. we try to make sure the evils we know about are addressed first before worrying  about the varying and specific issues of different batteries and implementations.

I wish I had time now and strength to argue this above subject, which I find very interning and stimulating for me. Unfortunately nowadays my mind saturated not with audio ideas but with polyurethane fume and with frustration the all 1.5” pipe connectors are all sold out after the last week New England flooding. To be very abridged I would say that I do feel that in most of the cases audio people do not use any methodologically sensible methods.  I am very much one of them and although I do advocate “methodologically clean” way to conduct audio assessments I very frequently do NOT use them. Here is we approach to most interesting subject on your post. I never felt that there is “ONE valid methodology and everything else is invalid” but since you pitch me this idea I VERY much like it.

Warn you that we DO NOT talk about the methodology of audio evaluations. I begin to cover this subject in here:

http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=50

… and I have  or need no second opinion on the subject. However, the methodological “CLEANNESS” of the following and the alleged existence of the ONLY ONE valid bind with methodology is something that I find very interesting to think about. I think I will return to this subject when my mind will be free from hardwood floor sanding and from trees planting… I think this stupid mode of self-inflicted domesticated neutering will be over in 2-3 weeks.

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