What covid research can teach us about audio measurements.


Recent studies in Canada for patients with so-called long covid show us on how science and measurements and research actually works.

Patients with long covid suffering from limited ability to exercise passed most "normal" tests but it took a new type of test to positively identify a mechanism that explained why the patients suffered.

 

Honestly there is a lot of snake oil and charlatanism in our hobby, and I don't claim to discount that fact.  What I do want to say is that science doesn't rest with 50 year old measurements.  It evolves to measure and explain constantly. 

The reason I am personally dissatisfied with audio measurements in the common literature is exactly because of this stagnation, and when these fail us we trust our ears and gut for lack of better tools. 

Anyone who runs the same 20 measurements on an amplifier or DAC and claims it is science and that these measurements are all that can be known is fooling themselves into believing that they are scientists or that we have reached the limits of understanding.

And above all, caveat emptor!

erik_squires

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Audio measurements are becoming increasingly important as the success of sites like Audio Science Review indicate.

Never in the history of audio has the industry has moved in the direction of less data required.

The equipment and measurements being carried out today were simply beyond the reach of anyone outside of a prestigious physics lab 50 years ago.

 

 

 

What Covid research told us, of course is anyone's guess.

Suffice to say it took an enormous amount of political pressure to get Pfizer to cough up the truth about their Coof jabs.


I would expect more data to follow in due course.

Or, given the stance of the much of the media today, is the correct term "to be leaked?"

 

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Pfizer Covid vaccine has 1,291 side effects reveals official documents by RT Staff Reporters - March 7, 2022

 

This release of documents follows U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman’s decision on January 6 to deny the request from the FDA to suppress the data for the next 75 years, which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”

 

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/pfizer-covid-vaccine-has-1291-side-effects-reveals-official-documents/

 

@thespeakerdude

Few if any of the scientific community doubt the existence of long Covid, and physiological and psychological testing confirms it exists.

 

The symptoms of ’long flu’ were well established before it became rebranded into a money making exercise of the most unprecedented levels.

 

What can the audio industry learn from this?

How about starting by creating doubt and fear in the minds of the potential customers? Admittedly the numbers of audiophiles is somewhat smaller than the planets current human population, but that’s just something else to work on as Pfizer have recently demonstrated by seeing off most of their market rivals.

 

Well, there’s already ’journalists’ already working flat out to create more fear and doubt in the minds of ardent audiophiles. Some of them regularly champion esoteric cables, overkill power supplies, cryogenics, MQA, 180 gram vinyl, cable lifters etc.

 

Whether the audio industry could go further and try to force all the public to upgrade their systems by mandates is rather unlikely at this point.

Upgrade passports are also somewhat difficult to forsee.

Besides, how many upgrades would you need to be allowed free travel?

One, two, three, four or more?

 

I believe that even Joe Biden’s speech writers might struggle to concoct any kind of plausible speech for their resident puppet in chief. Undoubtedly some kind of reference to climate change and the war in Ukraine would be involved.

’Your upgrade helps reduce carbon emissions and to fund our, err I mean Ukraine’s troops’ etc etc


Could the entire global media be marshalled into a concerted publicity drive to stress the need to upgrade is also hard to imagine.

Would the Disney owned Marvel Comics go as far as depicting the likes of Spider-Man and Captain America queueing up for high end auditions?

 

Perhaps what the industry really needs is the likes of Klaus Schwab and the WEF to get behind them.

I don’t think EISA - pause for laughter Expert Imaging and Sound Association - has the same kind of clout that Klaus’s World Economic Forum currently has.

 

Yes, they could bring in the Great Hi-Fi Reset by the year 2030.

You will own Hi-Fi and You will be happy.

 

Hmm, sounds noticeably better than their alleged current plan...