Mahgister, you expressed your talks perfectly well. I also understand what “not even wrong” means. But let me not agree with you. Firstly, I don’t see any relationship between individual taste and marketing. I am too far from marketing but I think i have my individual taste. As a simple example, the food I like that I find in supermarkets often disappear, because what I like most people just do not like. I cannot say that this is equally true regarding my tastes in music, but It is also partly true compared to the taste of the vast majority of the people.
Before disagreeing with someone first we must understand him ... 😁
My english mastery is really bad and i know it when i read philosopher as Santayana...
You completely miss my point... Then my english is more than bad indeed...😊
For sure there is no direct relation between individual taste and the gear pieces upgrade proposed .... Market sellers dont want you to loose your "taste" and forced you to buy their piece . They want in the opposite first confirm you in your taste omniscience and rightfulness...Second, this product they sell is for those who had a selective "taste" precisely.... They dont sell ketchup in audio and they dont want to convince a high end kitchen fine cook to buy ketchup... Do you get it ?
My point is about the importance of acoustic experience and concepts in not only the definition of "musical" concept but also for his experience... What we hear is conditioned by the way we are trained by our own history ...We must go further in life and we can learn how to hear new music and we can learn basic acoustics too to understand what to hear and how to modify it by changing the parameters... Tuning a room is like tuning a piano in many ways...
An acoustician designing a great Acoustic Hall must go beyond his untrained innate "taste" and apply concepts inherited from his training as musician and acoustician to assure an optimal experience for the listeners.... There is no irrational or idiosyncratic "taste" here at play.... ( It is not here as a consumer going with his "taste" to buy an amplifier Mcintosh or Pass labs as the ultimate acoustic answer to all his listening experience problems etc )
In my room with my chosen gear system when it is a synergetical relatively well made choice , nevermind his price, me too i would be in the obligation to set my speakers/ears/room right , not according to my "taste" so much but with my acoustic knowledge acquired by experiments or past experience ...
Taste there is....(but it is not about taste here)
Then claiming that taste play the main role or do not play any role at all is being "not even wrong" , these are useless claims ...
Acoustics with an (s) is not mere room acoustic but include psychoacoustics ... It is the knowlefge and experiments basis to not only define but reach a more "musical " experience in MY ROOM or in any room because all the concepts used were reach after deep studies and experiments with all kind of human subjects with all different tastes, trained , untrained or partially trained ......
You set up your experiment for a hypothetical individual who doesn’t exist.
And even more, all that surrounds us is the result of our individual perception, only our “observation” makes solid things to exist. Imagine that nothing of this exists in reality, and is a result of our imagination (wave collapse in quantum theory).
Also you confuse creative imagination with fantasy in perception...
When we perceive something, it is the result of conditioning and habit.... We are blind to reality, we see what we had learn to see with the CONCEPTS at our disposal...
Now imagine a children drawing made of points , this set of point must be completed by adding the lines.... Imagine there is no numbers identifying the set of points... You need creative imagination to guess rightfully how to com-plete the form without errors... Fantasy or passive imagination will attract you to any form "imagined" but not the good one...
Leonardo Da Vinci as well as archimedes physico=geometrical imagintion with his fulcrum point concept, Goethe with his seeing of the plant metamorphosis in time etc all thse three geniuses use creative imagination to ENHANCE perception out of the robotic day to day learned habit...
No need of quantum physics to understand basic perception and the necessity to train us to improve it... We see and look with eyes/brain processing + creative imagination +thinking concepts....