joncourage;142618 Wrote: > If the subjectivity in audio systems design results exclusively from > economic choices, why hasn't someone invented the cost-no-object > perfect audio reproduction system?
Probably because the weak spots in the reproduction chain are based on deeply flawed designs, like speaker cones, that don't provide a good enough representation of the pressure waves from actual instruments or voices. We haven't yet worked out the designs that will get us there, but the physics is established and valid. Breakthroughs in understanding come where there are gaps in knowledge or unexplained processes that don't have models or equations that work. That's not true in electronic or mechanical engineering. We don't have perfect designs yet, but we know how they work. joncourage;142618 Wrote: > I don't believe that we understand everything we will one day understand > about acoustical / audio science theory or engineering/production (nor > about virtually anything in our physical world). Many scientists and > philosophers throughout human history have made this mistake. We know what the faults are in audio gear, like the frequency response isn't flat, or time alignment of speakers drive units isn't perfect. These are far more gross conditions that perceived quantum effects. The problem is trying to come up with new designs to correct the imperfections and my suggestion is that measuring what happens every time you make a change is pretty darn useful rather than relying on perception which varies depending on your mood or caffeine intake. -- CardinalFang You're only young once, but you can be immature forever... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
