Why is science just a starting point and not an end point?


Measurements are useful to verify specifications and identify any underlying issues that might be a concern. Test tones are used to show how equipment performs below audible levels but how music performs at listening levels is the deciding criteria. In that regard science fails miserably.

Why is it so?
pedroeb

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I have read perhaps 30% of this thread, so excuse me if this post is redundant.  I would like to suggest that science clearly has an effect that is demonstrable in many ways.  However, the complexity that cannot be quantified and is one of the primary drivers of diverse opinions cannot be measured.

Each individual hears things differently due to having ears that have different abilities to process the signals being received.  This is then assimilated by the brain, a vastly complex organ whereby two people can listen to the same thing and react very different.y to the same input.  Implicit to the brains though created I. Response to the sound received are psychological components with regard to a variety of biases.

This might partially explain why some like horns, others enjoy planar speakers and yet others enjoy enclosed box speakers.  The same is true for all components and the complexities synergy among those components.

Science can create better and better resolution, yet what sounds “best” is beyond anyone’s ability to create an element that spunds “Best” to everyone.  Thus, we have the never ending arguments (to the joy of this forum) as to why their preference is better than yours.