When I was a medical student and resident decades ago I used to attend monthly "Morbidity and Mortality Rounds" presented to the medical staff of the teaching hospital I was training at. Cases were presented about interesting and complex patients who had died during their hospital admission first by the clinical team who cared for the patient on the ward, and then pathology team who had done the post mortem - autopsy, tissue and fluid analysis etc. It was a complex mix of objective and subjective data, clinical decision making with incomplete information, and the cold truths corroborated after death. It generated a lot of spirited debate and was a tremendous learning experience.
Some audio reviews take a similar approach such as Stereophile with listening followed by measurement.
A couple of years ago I was researching buying a power line conditioner, and came across an extensive review on ASR done by Amir. It showed the insides of the device and a plethora of measurements were presented which culminated in the pronouncement that the device could not possibly do what it claimed to do and so was not recommended. I read through the review again thinking I had missed an important section on how it sounded, but there was none to be found. Seeing how it made your system sound seems like a pretty fundamental component to any review. Measurements alone during an autopsy won't tell you how the patient felt when they were alive!
