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Re: Burning in hi-pass capacitors
It's art/magic when you don't know how it works. It's science when you do. :D
In fairness there is one application where the ear/brain is superior to even the best testing gear, and that's the ability to separate the acoustical wheat from the chaff, or to be scientific, direct from reflected sound. That's why a bootleg tape made at a concert is hardly ever intelligible, while concert goers hear everything just fine. But when it comes to any kind of measurements the ear/brain has less accuracy than an RTA with one octave smoothing.
Originally posted by mzisserson
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Yes, that would requre your ears to be hooked up to something useful between them, Bill. HA! :p Sorry, it was too low of fruit not to pick.
The one stance I take, and always will: a mic will never replace the summation of sound our brains do which generate our preception. That is why even the uber-glaken mic that can measure to impossible-hertz with giga-K resoultion is STILL nothing but a tool.
From there is it up to a human to use their ears, make coorilations to the data, and figure out what works for them... Which is not always what the "guru's" say.
If it all was as easy as trusting a mic 100%, there would be no need for the diversity in this hobby.
It's art built on the foundation of science! :eek:
The one stance I take, and always will: a mic will never replace the summation of sound our brains do which generate our preception. That is why even the uber-glaken mic that can measure to impossible-hertz with giga-K resoultion is STILL nothing but a tool.
From there is it up to a human to use their ears, make coorilations to the data, and figure out what works for them... Which is not always what the "guru's" say.
If it all was as easy as trusting a mic 100%, there would be no need for the diversity in this hobby.
It's art built on the foundation of science! :eek:
In fairness there is one application where the ear/brain is superior to even the best testing gear, and that's the ability to separate the acoustical wheat from the chaff, or to be scientific, direct from reflected sound. That's why a bootleg tape made at a concert is hardly ever intelligible, while concert goers hear everything just fine. But when it comes to any kind of measurements the ear/brain has less accuracy than an RTA with one octave smoothing.
I know which one it is now, but what do we do to move forward? There's just no coming back from times like this.
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