For Your Edification and Enjoyment re "Burn In", etc.

empirical: adjective
based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic

thesaurus: practical, heuristic, firsthand, hands-on, observed, seen, heard, evidence based

I guess that covers what we hear for ourselves and not what's written down somewhere. Just saying. You can challenge what someone hears to a parlor trick of a "test" but that's going overboard when all you want to do is discredit what one hears.

All the best,
Nonoise

If you ever discover what the word empirical means in a scientific sense, not an audiophile sense, then maybe we would have something to talk about. I don’t hold up much hope of that happening though.

I dont just serve only insults like you did...

I give you a serious research article....

I suggest an experiment...

You discreetly avoid these 2 points, article and experiment about "imaging", not from wiki here, but research paper, and go on attacking the person...

You take the same attitude in the last month with EVERYONE who disagree with you or everyone you disagree with...They are liars, deluded and incompetent... I am not a liar but i could be deluded, why not?, and i am certainly incompetent in audio science but i can understand a research paper not too slowly and i can experiment by myself and learn fast....I did it in the last 2 years and i am proud of my peanuts cost very good audio system...Thanks to my low cost embeddings controls...

Then you dont answered to my arguments only give me like usual an attack with no meaning about something a little far from my article and experiment : my alleged ignorance of what is "empirical" and your knowledge of it...

An article of research is not ethereal philosophy and an experiment is something very empirical to do....

Why going back to epistemology now?

I will mute myself .... Discussing with you is not very rewarding, it was so about the acoustical concept of timbre and it is the same thing now for imaging....


Meditate on this: knowledge is NOT understanding....Experiments are located between these 2 and encompass them at the same time....It is my koan ....

Try to imagine that attacking "audiophiles" make no sense at all, because this group encompass idiots and geniuses and all there is in between like any group, even the group to which you are a proud member.....

Biases are pervasive in all experiments and science fields, that does not invalidate experiments.... The truth is that without biases there will not exist any experiment only robots... Experiment are born in the mind of a scientist with his own conclusions and biases, his own humanity so to speak... There is no problem with that....

It is the "repeatability" that characterise empirical science not the erasing of biases "per se", except in the "skeptic club" ....Some biases are right being conscious, others are wrong being habits or unconscious... Biases must be controlled not erased....Self controls of our own prejudices is necessary but erasing them completely is futile and impossible anyway...

Collective consensus in science is in relation with repeatable experiments...Not necessarily  a blind test....😁

Biases are like moles and  blind spots, you dont want to erase them all at all cost it is impossible for some but you want to be conscious of them or make them conscious  in the course of the experiment itself....




Peer reviewing is another matter i will not discuss related also to big problems of his own...It is also a way to social corporate control of science in some aspect and is not always positive.... Look now where many scientific publish all their results on the net to keep their freedom and go away from dictatorial institutions...