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In Reply to: audio isn't all about science... posted by tunenut on March 20, 2007 at 17:52:46:
...of improved sound boxes? Better pressing materials? Superior cartridges?Can you name *even one* aspect of progress in phonography's first, oh, eighty years that resulted from "real data", as opposed to people more-or-less messing around to get better sound?
And even if you do come up with one, does not the preponderance of improvement today, as it always has, result from experimentation, rather than data?
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when designing the light bulb. These were controlled and systematic, and I would not characterize this work as "more-or-less messing around."
His experiments yielded plenty of real data.I doubt that he was "messing around" when he developed the phonograph, but I'm admittedly speculating on this point.
As far as your last point, it escapes me. Experimentation is used to gather data, so I don't see your distinction.
...or from the literature, where he might discover a gap to expand into. His procedures were strictly experimental, just as they are in properly-understood audio today.
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talk about playing with words. What you wrote is just gibberish.
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...next to Geoff Kait that is.
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You are the Coke Zero of the AA!
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