Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio

There are quite a few Fourier Analysis apps. Why don’t you give one a test drive and report back?

Geoff- I do have a cheapy loaded on to an iPad. It works with a microphone, either the one built into the iPad-questionable- or an external mic, but it is measuring output of the entire system within the room. What I was thinking about was a lab grade test that, for example, measured the frequency/timing characteristics of wire as electrical impulses- the subject of this thread was that wire is wire. I assume something like that could be hooked up--but also wonder if it is has already been done.

Is this hobby about absolutes or about enjoying an art called music?  And who has the hubris to anoint themselves an absolute authority to dictate how such an "enjoyment" must be experienced?  Are we such slaves to physics, or metaphysics, that we can't abide deviation from our personal preferences?

FZ:  

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.  

This horrible force (called music) is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever.  Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution.  Which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate the FUTURE.

We need to distinguish between things that are a matter of taste (do you like candle light or halogen lights, or Bach or Metallica?), and things that are a matter of emperical reality (what is the colour temperature in degrees Kelvin of candle light or halogen light?). About matters of taste one can have an opinion, but not about the emperical facts. You cannot 'prefer' gravity, or a higher speed of sound. In that sense science is not democracy. Of course, establishing the facts may be tricky, but that is not the same as that they are a subject for opinion.