arnyk wrote: > The real problem is that many things in audio are difficult or > impossible to truly DBT, Examples are things like loudspeakers and room > acoustics. Not everything is a simple signal processor or a perceptual > encoder. > > In one case an AES paper was cited as DBT-substantiated proof that > certain audible effects of room acoustics aren't actually audible. > Curiosity got the best of me, and as an AES member I could download and > read the paper for myself. It turned out that the paper was not based on > any DBTs, and itself was not offered as anything but an engineering > report on some interesting student experiment. > > IOW, someone was pulling the wool over the moderators and conference > member's eyes based on the problems that many non-AES members have to > surmount to read AES papers. Of course AES membership is only about $100 > a year, so if you are really interested in audio, it is actually a > pretty cheap ride. > > For people who want to be right as opposed to being correct, the recipe > is simple and repeated all over the web: Own a forum and ban everybody > who has a different opinion than you do. I know I'm in trouble when the > moderators themselves repeatedly make public posts that personally > attack me. Obviously, there are issues of honesty and scientific > integrity at work! > > This process has an equivalent in the real world where in business and > social organization some clever but not honest people work hard to > figure out who is going to give them (often well-deserved) disagreement, > and basically force them down and/or out rather than reconsider some of > their tightly held but potentially false beliefs. Thus, one can maintain > the self-deception that they are always right.
High end audio, like many other areas, also has individuals, who for some reason or other, have been anointed as "experts" and use their status to control the flow of information and, more importantly, opinion within the area. More often than not these "experts" are industry insiders with particular agenda to promote regardless of the worth or truth of that agenda. In high end audio these "experts" have now completely abandoned any shred of objective reasoning and replaced reasoning with blatant cheerleading of the latest industry sales pitches. And so we get people like John Atkinson and Robert Harley, two writers/editors with little technical expertise or training, posing as experts. A sad state of affairs. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105254 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
