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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankD" data-source="post: 3178568" data-attributes="member: 18544">I believe someone might try to make the claim but for it to be believable in a place like this would take pictures of the measures at the very least...and even then some of the folks might claim that those were doctored.How it should work is....1. Company A produces an instrument with some excellent specs.2. They send the specs for each unit out with each unit as they are sold.3. The company sends some sample instruments to reviewers such as Gijs, All Binos, etc... that have the equipment to independently verify the claims or some of these reviewers obtain samples from different retailers to make sure there aren't any "cherries" being sent out.4. Once specs are independently verified and published then the burden of proof falls on the person claiming otherwise.</blockquote>