On 12/10/10 20:50, magiccarpetride wrote: > > Robin Bowes;582344 Wrote: >> You can't lump "music" and audio reproduction together. Music is indeed >> an art form, that we all enjoy. However, hudio reproduction is an >> engineering discipline, based largely on science. > > I don't see how are they different? Couldn't you equally well say that > music, as an art form, is based on an engineering discipline (that is > based largely on science), because you can't have quality musical > instruments without engineering them carefully. If you look into any > good instrument, you'll realize how much math and engineering must go > into building one.
No, you can't - they are completely different. Music can and does exist without instruments. It exists in the minds of those who have heard it. It exists on the pages of a score. As you say, don't confuse the utensils with the food. R. -- "Feed that ego and you starve the soul" - Colonel J.D. Wilkes http://www.theshackshakers.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
