The idea that science is either a starting point, or an ending point is misguided. Science is a tool for us to organize our thoughts and derive models to help explain the universe we live in.
You observe something, you make hypothesis, you try them out and see if they work.
Science is not metrics. It is not quality assurance. It is the process that very much includes human experience, explains some of it, and then looks for the next opportunity to enhance our understanding.
It is neither supreme to nor independent of human experience.
To everyone who thinks measurements for audio gear which were widely adopted over 50 years ago equals science, that there is your problem. Science generated those measurements, but it does not say that should be their end point, the last measurements for all time.
The fields of room acoustics and head related transfer functions IMHO show just how much more there was left after that. I believe that the field of audio equipment measurement and explanation is still pregnant with opportunity for science to continue expanding and for that expansion to reach the hobby press, but it has not happened yet.
Those measurements, codified half a century ago are not the start and end of audio science. Those who apply them as the only standard of quality are not scientists. They are technicians.
You observe something, you make hypothesis, you try them out and see if they work.
Science is not metrics. It is not quality assurance. It is the process that very much includes human experience, explains some of it, and then looks for the next opportunity to enhance our understanding.
It is neither supreme to nor independent of human experience.
To everyone who thinks measurements for audio gear which were widely adopted over 50 years ago equals science, that there is your problem. Science generated those measurements, but it does not say that should be their end point, the last measurements for all time.
The fields of room acoustics and head related transfer functions IMHO show just how much more there was left after that. I believe that the field of audio equipment measurement and explanation is still pregnant with opportunity for science to continue expanding and for that expansion to reach the hobby press, but it has not happened yet.
Those measurements, codified half a century ago are not the start and end of audio science. Those who apply them as the only standard of quality are not scientists. They are technicians.