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There is no point to this hobby if accuracy isn't the ultimate criteria

Once subjectivism becomes the standard, there effectively is no standard, every opinion is worth as much as every other opinion and a pocket radio is as valuable as the most elaborate state of the art sound system. From a commercial point of view, this allows for an infinite variety of product each able to claim with equal validity that it is the best. And it lets engineers off the hook by never having their feet held to the fire because they have designed "inaccurate" equipment since one man's intolerable distortion is another's beautiful sound. Of course, based on the cataleptic state of the art which has failed miserably to advance very much in decades, this might be the best course of action to advocate for those who want to stay in business. After all, what other justification can they offer for new products and high prices if they don't have any substantiable claims to more accurately performing models?


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