Do Physicists Or Musicians Design Better Speakers?


While looking at and listening to various speakers, I notice that the designers behind the speakers often fall into two distinct camps: They either have impressive academic credentials, usually in physics or mathematics and design speakers from a technical perspective. Or, they are musicians, or have a musical backround, and design from an artistic standpoint. I've heard speakers designed by scientists that sounded great and not so great and by musicians also with divergent results. Wondering which backround consistently results in great speakers.
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the subtle nuances and overtones of certain acoustical instruments are hard to replicate correctly

a musician with a fine tuned ear can hear these things and know when a speaker doesn't measure up

but I find a lot of musicians literally hear the note and focus more on the musical note (was that g or a flat) than the tonal qualities

a lot of musicians have crap audiophile systems

personally I'd want a physics major who really loves music designing things