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In Reply to: Prop head posted by rp1@surfnetusa.com on April 10, 2007 at 00:02:27:
Neglecting for the moment this poster's self-assigned gatekeeper role... audio began as an engineers' hands-on hobby. All during the Twenties, Thirties, Forties and Fifties fellows were "tweaking" their systems without benefit of the massive numbers of integral equations found today in JAES. One could say the hobby was *all about* tweaking.Granted, from those experiences a few engineering rules did get formed, but audio was mostly "vest pocket" stuff practiced by connoisseur engineers.
Then came the revolution: The Academy usurped real audio and somewhere in the mid-Seventies the scene shifted from better sound to higher math -- the better to prove one's prowess at the blackboard. By 1980 no author who discussed actual sound was admitted to the pages of JAES, and the venerable, more useful IEEE transactions on Audio had fallen by the wayside.
Now from that lofty institution, the AES, we find the Professors of Propellor Head University declaiming the dogmas of Technical Religion and like Jim Austin PhD decrying "silly ideas" that needless to say they've never tried because they don't have to.
Finally they appoint themselves gatekeepers of what's proper to discuss on Prop Head and applaud enthusiastically when things "controversial" are shunted aside, because there can be NO CONTROVERSY about what they know damn well is right.
clark
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Follow Ups
- "This is NOT the room for discussion of tweaks." Hmm... - clarkjohnsen 08:56:16 04/10/07 (5)
- Gatekeeper? Naw... - rp1@surfnetusa.com 10:17:52 04/10/07 (4)
- "Even you, Clark, have to admit... - clarkjohnsen 12:06:34 04/10/07 (3)
- Ok smart alec... - rp1@surfnetusa.com 22:56:52 04/10/07 (1)
- OK... ?? nt - clarkjohnsen 12:02:39 04/11/07 (0)
- Oh yeah, I forgot... - rp1@surfnetusa.com 21:59:16 04/10/07 (0)
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