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In Reply to: RE: Toothpicks and cherry Lifesavers posted by Posy Rorer on July 1, 2007 at 13:05:06
Thank you all for your thoughtful comments and insights!
Learning "what makes home audio tick" for me is understanding in more detail the subtleties of the electronics and how it affects our enjoyment. I've ran across a few things, and read about many more that I think would be fun to pursue, time permitting.
I'm sort of like the guy whose only tool is a hammer... Electronics is my field and I've spent a long career doing product design. Although I've never done consumer audio equipment I have worked extensively on technologically similar stuff which possess equivalent subtleties.
Actually I'm not as blind or unexposed to the issues being raised as I may seem. They simply aren't my focus. I am more concerned than I was that these other factors which affect the listening experience may add to the difficulty of evaluating designs.
I am a staunch believer in the scientific method, it works. It's a good technique. As for those who attempt to turn science into a religion, they offend both. I too find them annoying, especially those who fancy themselves "skeptics".
Like Stu, I seek and expect to find at least some, if you would, "scientific" explanations for my observations. I think we're all in the same boat, science is a tool we can us to help understand our observations, not a dogma that precludes them.
Rick
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I believe you have a good philosophy that more ought to take up. Very often understanding a phenomenon may lie beyond the scope of any one individual, but others can contribute their experiences and knowledge and then the whole field can advance. Bickering does little to advance any cause.
While not a staunch numbers man (the attitude that I won't believe it until you can show me a test with numeration), there are many aspects to sound which are difficult to measure, difficult to communicate about, and difficult to resolve. The scientific method is not only necessarily creating a test or obtaining the instrumentation to measure something, but also understanding the principles which can involve an aspect of audio. Once having a theoretical understanding, then the tweak or principle can then be applied and the quality of the results, good or bad, observed. This in itself can help prove or disprove the theory.
Stu
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