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Are you a Verificationist about audio?

A Verificationist about audio believes that...

A statement about audio is valid ONLY IF it can be verified, and it can be verified ONLY IF there is some finite, repeatable, public procedure for determining whether it is true or false.

Verificationism is a major ideological division on Audiogon, particularly on topics relating to cables, power accessories, and miscellaneous tweaks. Verificationists argue that, if a statement about cable x, power outlet y, or tweak z cannot be verified, then the statement is not valid. Anti-verificationists argue that, if they themselves hear a difference between item x and item y, then that is sufficient to make statements about those items valid.

Are you a Verificationist about audio?
bryoncunningham
usblues
1,216 posts
 
I am definatly able to say I am a verification person as long as the verification involves no absolutes anywhere in the process of verification including the verification of the original verification.On the other hand.............
mechans
2,999 posts
 
No and the notion that this is a major division amongst audio hobbyists appears untrue. I have no instrument to measure this claim.
The only measuring devices I use are an SPL meter but not for the purposes of verifying a loudspeaker's claimed sensitivity, and very infrequently a multimeter. I am a wishful -someday I'll get around to learning it- DIYer.
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samujohn
291 posts
 
Long ago, when I was young, if an amplifier passed a sine wave and a square wave at a certain power over a certain frequency range, it was declared to be better than the job required, since obviously one could not hear distortion below say 1 or 2 %. Speaker wire was zip cord and interconnect was well......wire (and men were men and electricity was just electricity).
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