Quote Originally Posted by Paul Stewart (ex-Technical Liaisons Officer for JVC)
When I was doing research into "Infra bass and perceptions of reality in sound staging", which followed on from something Graham Holiman started. We found that a lot of what we did was indeed measurable, but a lot of what the large group of test subjects perceived was not, both they and us the crew could hear the effect, without going into the full details of something thing that is a large corporations Intellectual property, I will say it took almost three years to work out what was actually going on.

So when someone says they can hear what I can't measure, or I can hear it myself, my approach is to accept that people very probably, can detect the effect, then look for a new way in which this can be measured. That for me is proper exploring science. The closed minded "if I can't measure it, it isn't there" approach is not the attitude that made scientific advances, it's what has held science back.
Hear, hear!

On AoS, we most certainly aren't 'against' the use of science or measurements validating our subjective experiences in audio, provided that both are applied in the correct way (as outlined above), and not merely used as a tool to bolster the prejudices of the blinkered and close-minded, posing as members or sympathisers of the scientific fraternity.

Marco.