"The Objectivist Tribe"

[Feanor]

Of interest to the "two tribes", both subjectivists and objectivists alike ... or it should be.

Speech by Lars Risbos, cofounder of PURIFI: Unreasonable Audio Innovation

This quote excerpted from Lars Risbos' speech ...

The objectivists tribe: standard metrics are sufficient, double-blind testing is the only admissible evidence, and almost nothing is audible. And yet — paradoxically — they spend enormous effort optimising the same short list of metrics: THD, IMD, noise floor. Decade after decade. Regardless of whether those metrics capture what the ear is actually sensitive to.

Another quote from Lars Risbos' speech ...

Audio is not art and it is not science. It is engineering. That distinction matters because it changes how you decide what to do.

In engineering, you design your measurements for the specific failure modes of the specific device. You look hard for bad news. You take results seriously even when — especially when — they don’t fit the consensus.

 

[2FarGone]

Sounds interesting. The website is down for scheduled maintenance until June 8, but I’ll enjoy checking it out then.

 

[Mr Peabody]

That was a good speech. There's actually a thread with this already

 

[Feanor]

That was a good speech. There's actually a thread with this already

AH!! Thanks. I hadn't notice that.

A key insight is that the usual objectivists considers standard measurements "settled science" and definitive of everything we need to know. Risbos objects to that.

It's amusing to see him say that the 'Objectivist Tribe' consider pretty much everything inaudible despite striving for evermore perfection, (at least so far as standard measurements are concerned).