True but if he claims a formal education and significant professional experience then he has had years and it’s inconceivable that he’s only explored those rabbit holes in terms of audiophile marketing rather than scientific/engineering terms.
There certainly are different communities and styles of doing things within the world of audio engineering. There are significant differences between sound and music engineers, there are significant differences between engineers working with say classical music and popular genres and there can be significant engineering differences even between different popular genres. Although there are many exceptions, engineers tend to specialise in specific areas, classical, rock or electronica for example. I’ve worked with many over the years, some who did things very considerably different to me. I’ve even worked with quite a few who very strongly advocated analogue workflows, although numbers have dwindled in the last dozen years or so, as plug-in programming and DSP limitations have improved. However, even in these cases they didn’t “get away with their misconceptions”, they didn’t have misconceptions! They ALL had at least a good understanding of the basic facts of analogue and digital audio engineering, and their reasons for preferring analogue were entirely logical and based on the actual facts, not audiophile marketing BS!
I’ve come across “bedroom” engineers, with no formal education or training and no justification for calling themselves a music engineer beyond having messed around with GarageBand or even a real DAW software package on their laptop. These “engineers” typically have no idea about how digital or analogue audio actually work and are often under the same delusions as the audiophile community. Spend anytime on any of the pro audio forums and you’ll see many posters who fit into this category, GearSlutz is an obvious example but you also find quite a few on the pro-tools forums and just about all the others. The difference is, that on those forums, sooner or later a real engineer comes along and refutes any audiophile nonsense.
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