Line between having an open mind vs being objective(basing on your current knowledge)

Primarily in the left cheek and along a nerve going into my left jaw. Stage 3 IIRC. There were two smaller areas on my tongue and right cheek. Not caused by this thread mind you. Likely caused by my then-current Crohn's Disease medication (Humira).

It was just over a year ago that I had reconstructive surgery, followed by a few months of chemo and radiation. I get scanned every few months at this point to make sure things are alright. Next scan is coming up in October, then I think they drop it back to a couple a year for a while.

 

This may sound a bit discomforting, but I don't think there is anything "sure" in this world.

Also, "objective" data is not obtained through attempts at applying the scientific method. We just get data. It's up to the scientist to interpret the data and to expose his/her rationale as to how the data supports his/her claims. The data may not be repeatable. In fact, it may be hard to prove it is or it is not repeatable. Assumptions usually need to be made, whose support in many cases is not rigorous.

As far as observation, it's human. It's flawed. And it's flexible.

One of the most important disciplines that an engineer should master is probability. Much our understanding of the world is based on probability. There is little to no certainty. And it's beautiful. It's amazing how the Gaussian curve repeats itself perhaps due to the central limit theorem. The beauty of the uncertainty principle is present many times as we go from one domain to another (and not just time and frequency). How shaky the basic foundations of Math itself can be depending on what you take for granted and what you don't. We could go on and on.

Now how all of this applies to audio evaluation? Well, for one forget about this "feelings" and "objective data" bullshit.

Instead, I would think about when do we determine if a THD number is good or bad? How we came up with the threshold? What does it mean in terms of audio appreciation? How do we come up with what is good value for your money and what is not? What frequency response signature is the most compatible with most of the audio content available? How are different aspects/issues of the audio reproduction chain affect overall perceived performance?

We maybe lost in semantics here, but I feel you are searching for certainty in data, when there is not as much of it as you may (or may not) think.

BTW, there is a 15.29122582338% chance you may get this.

 

LOL! all of this is just noise.

@castleofargh, I think we would be using our time much better listening to music, and discussing what gear we like and why (based on data even if you like), than discussing the philosophy of "objectivity".

Maybe characterize/evaluate something or such. Post a joke in the appropriate thread. Take a picture of your audio gear and show it to folks, see how many Guravchlorians we can sense. Stuff like that.

 

SuperBAF: "Too passionate for the passionately reasoned. Too reasoned for for the unreasonably passionate."

Keep it up. Black gooey ooze bubbling up pretty good. Can't we have these discussions in the sound science forum?

 

You've been here less than a month yet you're clogging up the forum with your long winded attempts to wax idiotic. Seriously, in 29 posts you've managed to wildly f**k up our signal to noise ratio.

This isn't castleofargh.blogspot.com. If you want to stick around, learn more about this place before posting wall_of_text.txt.

 

@castleofargh posted very few posts ( 29 in one month !!) ...Please, give me break... I don't see where's the blogspot is and if I agree with you with the serious drop in SNR , I don't think @castleofargh is the worst contributor to noise and shitloads of crappy uneseful threads/ posts I discover each morning when I drink my f'ing coffee.

Dunno where the rant come from and trust me, I don't agree with all @castleofargh has to tell ( and I know first hand how he can behave as an asshole) but I appreciate to read different opinions here even if I strongly disagree. if we disagree, it's easy to do what Ultrabike did and argue. Facebook friends can give dislike or like as well or whatever.

I don't understand the special treatment here....

 

I've gotten four PMs, three people on the discord complaining to me directly, and an email about it. It's the most complaints about a single new user I've gotten ever. I don't have time to police the forum so I don't have time to look for the problem cases.

I want us to have differing opinions on the forum. That's the point of this place, to look at all the different sides of the hobby to see what we can learn. The primary intent of my posting was to cut down on long, drawn out posts which are 90% "I AM SO SMART, S M R T" and 10% perspective. That 10% loses value and the message is lost if it can't be delivered concisely.

 

Jeez.... MP to the Staff to complain. Great from "friends" ....

 

I honestly don't care if people hates you and your opinions . I just hate unfair treatments.

 

You're missing the point. @sorrodje could do anything he damn well pleased. He's been on the forum for a long time, contributed positively, and understands this place quite well. If he chose, he could be a hugely pompous dill weed and no one would blink. He could jump into pretty much any thread he chose and act contrary just to be contrary. Some folks would whine but I doubt I'd get direct complaints to my inbox.

The warning you received is just to let you know to slow your roll. Feel free to disagree with whoever you want, just try to get the lay of the land and understand this place a bit more before going all in.