Why is science just a starting point and not an end point?


Measurements are useful to verify specifications and identify any underlying issues that might be a concern. Test tones are used to show how equipment performs below audible levels but how music performs at listening levels is the deciding criteria. In that regard science fails miserably.

Why is it so?
pedroeb
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I made hard work....

I created the Helmholtz mechanical equalizer and this made me understand the way the audio field is in many ways oriented often by market and profit...Not much by education and listening experiments....

Room acoustic active mechanical control MAY be so powerful, NO PIECE of gear upgrade compare...It is a scientific fact by the way....

It cost nothing...

It is Pure proved science only, first by Helmholtz....


BUT i created also other devices that work AT NO COST, and mocked by idiot who think science has an "opinion" and they make this alleged opinion their own in an act of belief that will refuse even a simple experiment...

And these idiot buy upgrade at hight cost and called that a scientific educated act compared to my no cost experiment...


I am "special" indeed like all of those who are not programmed and conditioned by "scientism" and other market myths....

I am not a fad of crowd, especially crowd of self proclaimed scientists in audio thread hobbyist denigrating anyone to be gullible or in placebo state and refusing blindtest.......I dont need blindtest....I am not a marketing company or a pharmacological industry .... Blackbox experience is enough for my hobby...

Audiophile experience may cost peanuts....With only discarded junk and brain work with simple common sense facts....listening experiments .... And Helmholtz....

Those who claim otherwise are rich, and able to buy the best engineering....I am not in this case and anyway i dont need neither money nor upgrade now.... My brain worked well and it is enough....


Be special, trust your ears and trust your creativity....Dont listen to those who downgrade any personal effort in the name of their favorite idol : "science" or the market, and their own costly toys.......

At the end you will not listen to the best audio system in the world for sure, but it is enough for me if it is one of the best in the ratio S.Q. /price....

That was my goal....






«At the end those who discount science are not those who ignore it, but those who revere it like an idol»-Anonymus Smith

«Dont be rational to the point your reason could die of loneliness on his island»-Groucho Marx 🤓
I don't reject all claims without scientific proof, only ridiculous claims where not even a bare minimum of effort was extended to see if it made sense.
 Observation does not need proof, nor is there any obligation on the observer to expend effort to provide you with an explanation, sensible or otherwise. 


Measurements and testing are vital to building good audio gear but so is listening they go hand in hand
If you are trying to allude that tests like THD is useful, the 1970’s called and they want their approach to building amps back.

Testing is useful to prevent smoke and fire, as well as to do things like match components and checking whether they are within spec. Nothing more. 
Observation does not need proof, nor is there any obligation on the observer to expend effort to provide you with an explanation, sensible or otherwise.
That's true noone owes me anything. 

Testing is useful to prevent smoke and fire, as well as to do things like match components and checking whether they are within spec.
Among other things.
Because you cannot ascertain by looking at a spreadsheet which of two amplifiers you will prefer. The only way to know what anything sounds like is to listen to it. With your ears. Measurements exist to determine what may work within a system, and what may not. Think power characteristics for an amplifier and the power demands for a set of speakers. If you own speakers that require a lot of power, that require a high dampening factor, a low powered amplifier, with a low dampening factor, will likely not drive your speakers to their full potential. But once you find two amplifiers that will drive your speakers according to the numbers, you still need to listen to those two amplifiers, in your system driving your speakers, if you want to know which amplifier sounds best, to you. Measurements are a tool, they are not an end.

Ted Denney
Lead Designer, Synergistic Research Inc.