After having read your reply and getting past the fake outrage, your answer is "No." , you do not check. That is alright, but it will always leave you open to questions.I say fake outrage because no allegation or insinuation was made; a simple question was asked. I could say that you protest too much.
Now some advice for you. If you got off your high horse and allowed some discussion in ASR, none of these threads would ever have materialised. It is your arrogance and intransigence in throwing off anyone who disagrees with you that annoys many people including your own minions. Look at your appalling treatment of restorerjohn, (yes I know you did not ban him, but you dismissed him in a particularly nasty way), on your own site. This was a disgrace.
One final point. :You stated: "Keep in mind that these are not mechanical product subject to large variations. Yes, there can be minor differences in performance of components but nothing significant can be achieved."
Amir this is blatant nonsense. Are you saying that adding better quality capacitors, improved shielding, an improved power supply, high voltage transformers and decoupling the power supply does not lead to a significant improvement?