[1] You (and the usual suspects) are assuming science knows everything about human hearing.
[2] I'm assuming the science of human hearing leaves lots to be discovered.
1. What usual suspects assume that? No one here assumes that, you just made that up.
2. Actually, not a great deal. Science knows all the basics of how human hearing works and has done for many years, there’s relatively little still to be discovered. There’s still a fair amount to be discovered about human perception though.
As ever, you present an argument that is simply false, a strawman. As pointed out to you previously we do not need to know everything in order to make assertions or refutations. If someone claims that 1+1=3, science does not need to know everything about mathematics and I don’t even need to be a professional mathematician in order to refute that claim and assert that actually 1+1=2. How is that not obvious and more mind boggling still, how is it not obvious despite it being explained to you previously more than once?!!
Here we go again with the "when you can't refute someone's argument, make up crap no one said and say stuff about that."
Enough with the “we”, it’s only YOU! “Someone’s argument” (Rob Watts and your presentation of it as somehow “science”) has already been refuted and the point #1 above is a perfect example of “
make up crap no one said and say stuff about that”!
One of the premier audio designers of all time doesn't know these things...
It's hard to imagine a more delusional and idiotic statement.
Ah, we can agree on something. It is indeed hard to imagine a “
more delusional and idiotic statement” than Rob Watts being one of the premier audio designers of all time!
There have been countless great audio designers over the decades/centuries, from Helmholtz over 150 years ago to Edison, Bell, Heaviside, Berliner, De Forest, Blumlein, Neumann, Dolby, Neve, Stockham and many more, plus numerous others who aren’t necessarily specified but worked for companies such as Bell/AT&T, BASF, Ampex, Studer, NHK, BBC, Lexicon, Sony, Philips, Yamaha and countless others. I doubt Rob Watts would get into the list of the top 10,000 audio designers, so yes, the assertion of him being one of the premier audio designers of all time is laughably “
delusional and idiotic”!
Indeed, the very thing that makes him credible (beyond his extraordinary track record) is his doubts, which, unlike nearly every other designer/builder, he exposes to the world for critique. And more than that, he listens to critiques, admits when he makes mistakes, like with power supplies and the Dave design. He learned what a terrible problem RF traveling looping through the ground plane can be, I suspect largely from very clever owners of his product who built better power supplies. Indeed, Rob himself admitted that he learned his own product sounds better with a battery!
Ah exactly! What makes someone credible in this subforum, in science/engineering communities (and in general) is whether his assertions are factually/scientifically accurate and not just BS marketing.
But for fan boys credibility is apparently based on “his doubts”, “listening to critiques”, admitting to mistakes (which he typically doesn’t) and an “
extraordinary track record” which consists of; learning something about RFI that science and the rest of the engineering community knew many decades earlier and a very expensive, flagship DAC/Amp that was actually so mediocre it could apparently be improved just by using a cheap battery. Impressive, truly one of the premier audio designers of all time, ROFL!!
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