Arnold Krueger
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Just to get your heart beating before the first cuppa:
"Self-proclaimed audio objectivists, like those that troll audio forums, are not scientists, or audio professionals; they have not directly experienced the giant Sound Lab speakers or the acoustic-wind of a 15A/13A Western Electric horn system. They are pathologically self-centered people who watch the hurricane on TV and then later, tell the hurricane survivor that lost their cat, "That wasn't a hurricane—it was only a tropical storm."
I regard self-proclaimed audio objectivists, ones that parlay a few quasi-imaginable cultural abstractions and a middle school smattering of Newtonian Physics, into entitlement and authority -- as the self-declared enemies of poetry, love, and humanist culture. If they simply Googled 'logic and the world' they would quickly discover the Enlightenment Paradigm (Voltaire, Locke, et al.) they cling to was rejected by scientists and philosophers—before 1930 (Einstein, Heisenberg, et al.).
Their puffed-chest-DIY-objectivism pays zero respect to any plausible relation between logic and the realms of experience (Bertrand Russell). Amateur objectivists can't imagine that numbers and counting are little more than cultural fabrications with a stronger history in banking than science.
Interestingly, objectivists like behavioral psychologists do not believe consciousness exists. They can't see it or measure therefore it is not real. I always remind them they can't see or measure that roll of c-notes in my jeans pocket—but it is there just the same.
I personally believe that the unqualified acceptance of measuring and quantification automatically rejects the reality of human awareness and denies the verity of sensory perception.
I haven't told anyone, but lately I've been rendezvousing with a cult of self-proclaimed audio objectivists. Why? Because I need them to explain: how shall I recognize a superior audio system when it is playing and I am sitting in front it? What real, irrational, or transcendental numbers must I generate to accurately predict its usefulness or pleasure-giving ability?
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Read more at https://www.audiostream.com/content/audio-without-numbers...
"Self-proclaimed audio objectivists, like those that troll audio forums, are not scientists, or audio professionals; they have not directly experienced the giant Sound Lab speakers or the acoustic-wind of a 15A/13A Western Electric horn system. They are pathologically self-centered people who watch the hurricane on TV and then later, tell the hurricane survivor that lost their cat, "That wasn't a hurricane—it was only a tropical storm."
I regard self-proclaimed audio objectivists, ones that parlay a few quasi-imaginable cultural abstractions and a middle school smattering of Newtonian Physics, into entitlement and authority -- as the self-declared enemies of poetry, love, and humanist culture. If they simply Googled 'logic and the world' they would quickly discover the Enlightenment Paradigm (Voltaire, Locke, et al.) they cling to was rejected by scientists and philosophers—before 1930 (Einstein, Heisenberg, et al.).
Their puffed-chest-DIY-objectivism pays zero respect to any plausible relation between logic and the realms of experience (Bertrand Russell). Amateur objectivists can't imagine that numbers and counting are little more than cultural fabrications with a stronger history in banking than science.
Interestingly, objectivists like behavioral psychologists do not believe consciousness exists. They can't see it or measure therefore it is not real. I always remind them they can't see or measure that roll of c-notes in my jeans pocket—but it is there just the same.
I personally believe that the unqualified acceptance of measuring and quantification automatically rejects the reality of human awareness and denies the verity of sensory perception.
I haven't told anyone, but lately I've been rendezvousing with a cult of self-proclaimed audio objectivists. Why? Because I need them to explain: how shall I recognize a superior audio system when it is playing and I am sitting in front it? What real, irrational, or transcendental numbers must I generate to accurately predict its usefulness or pleasure-giving ability?
"
Read more at https://www.audiostream.com/content/audio-without-numbers...