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In Reply to: Re: Science only advances through careful observation... posted by pkell44 on March 15, 2005 at 18:08:54:
pkell44's posting above could not have been more eloquently put - particularly the part which says "a true scientist continues to investigate the phenomena until he can at least evolve a working hypothesis". I would also add, relating to the world of audio, that things which go wrong i.e cause the sound to be worse can give as many significant clues as things which go right i.e give an improvement in the sound. Also things which happen by chance can force people to sit up and take notice if, as the well known saying goes, the mind is prepared to take notice.Compare pkell44's and David Aiken's flexible minded responses with Steve Eddy's reply to pkell44's sentence "I doubt that everything we can hear can be measured. There are still order of magnitudes of things that "science" is unaware of and does not know how to measure or quantify".
Steve Eddy's reply is
"Are you suggesting that sound is caused by something other than changes in air pressure versus time ?"Our answer to that question Steve is Yes, in our opinion (Peter's and mine), there is more to the perception of sound than just changes in air pressure versus time. The processing of the received musical information by the brain is extremely relevant.
And, in another posting, in reply to chris_w regarding 'is the test gear good enough?' Steve's reply is
"Suffice to say that I'm not aware of anything at this point which has been established to actually be audible which has escaped measurement."Is that really true Steve ? Have you never, ever, really been 'knocked back on your heels' by changes in the sound which could not be measured ?
This is my first 'posting' on audio asylum. I had intended my first posting would be a reply to another issue regarding cables i.e. the thread which started "Who is right" by Mert in the General Asylum section but my registration was rather late for that particular thread.
May Belt.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Science only advances through careful observation... - May Belt 07:48:23 03/16/05 (5)
- Welcome, May, and I trust that you'll weather the occasional storm here, ... - Djhymn 11:55:33 03/16/05 (0)
- Re: Science only advances through careful observation... - Steve Eddy 10:13:43 03/16/05 (0)
- Measurements can be another form of bias, just like beliefs, attitudes and expectations bias sighted auditions - Richard BassNut Greene 09:38:03 03/16/05 (2)
- Re: Measurements can be another form of bias - chris_w 05:23:56 03/19/05 (0)
- Regarding bias - E-Stat 13:16:12 03/16/05 (0)
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