knownothing2
100+ Head-Fier
First, I want to thank you for taking the time to reply to my post thoughtfully and thoroughly. As for the comment above. I am clearly confused based on a previous post (#660) of yours in this thread and perhaps others where you indicated a lot of this is old hat and settled.I don’t know where on Earth you got this from but it’s pretty much the exact opposite of the actual facts! The whole history of music recording, editing, mixing and mastering from at least the early 1950’s has been based on experimentation, on trying different ways of doing things, of pushing equipment to or beyond it’s intended operating range or even it’s limits and/or employing it in ways never intended or even imagined by it’s designers. This is all in defiance of “settled theory and practice”, not relying on it! With the exception of client and distribution specs which must be met, “everything else” is MORE important than “settled theory and practice”!
“That’s perfect (!), because off the top of my head I can’t think of a better example of what I stated in the first paragraph of my previous post (post #587). Here you are thinking and making suppositions about questions that were asked by science roughly 170 years ago, heavily researched and completely answered/proved about a century and a half ago (starting around 1876), then demonstrated in practice to be correct ever since, literally countless billions of times. So, all done and dusted nearly a century before there even was an audiophile community! lol
You need to look up the work of Oliver Heaviside, for example his “Telegrapher’s Equations” and the “Transmission Line Model” (which are derived from Maxwell’s Laws), that mathematically defines cable geometry/signal behaviour/shielding, which incidentally led to him patenting coax cable in 1880.”
Clearly my mistake.
I see your point here. My family members think I am “obsessed”, and while I love my job, my hifi and music habits occupy a lot of my limited processing power.Obsessed to what degree? Obsessed to the degree of dedicating one’s entire working life to it, to competing with thousands/tens of thousands of graduates for a relative handful of jobs? Hobbyist is another term for someone who is very interested in something or maybe even has some amount of obsession but not enough to put it all on the line, study and practice assiduously and make a living from doing it professionally.
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