Rmar
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I recently watched several of Dr. Bose's lectures online through MIT. While the math is well beyond anything I have experienced, I tried to stay focused on the meaning behind it.
In the video below, starting at 38:00 and going to about 45:00, Dr. Bose introduces his students to a model for what I will call “audio enjoyment experience." Dr. Bose referred to it as the “…discipline of acoustics.” He suggests there are three domains, or what he calls "sets” in the model: 1 - Device Set, 2 - Measurement Set and 3: Perception Set. Other than offering a few personal comments clearly out of academic frustration for the industry and marketplace for Hi-Fi, he gave no more details about his model and moved on to other topics. Yet, as I looked at his model, a few questions came to mind, which admittedly could never be answered with absolute certainty. Just the same though, a question is a question. The one that I had was this:
Given the three sets, to what extent does each domain contribute to a person’s audio enjoyment experience? Is it the equipment, the measurements, or our perception and/or by how much of each?
https://teachingexcellence.mit.edu/inspiring-teachers/amar-bose-6-312-lecture-01-introduction
In hindsight, knowing that the lecture he gave in the video was to pique the interest of his students in the course material to come, I can also say it did the same me. What I can also say is that I would not have lasted another hour in his class given the glimpse of the level of mathematics they were about to get involved in. I am certain about that.
In the video below, starting at 38:00 and going to about 45:00, Dr. Bose introduces his students to a model for what I will call “audio enjoyment experience." Dr. Bose referred to it as the “…discipline of acoustics.” He suggests there are three domains, or what he calls "sets” in the model: 1 - Device Set, 2 - Measurement Set and 3: Perception Set. Other than offering a few personal comments clearly out of academic frustration for the industry and marketplace for Hi-Fi, he gave no more details about his model and moved on to other topics. Yet, as I looked at his model, a few questions came to mind, which admittedly could never be answered with absolute certainty. Just the same though, a question is a question. The one that I had was this:
Given the three sets, to what extent does each domain contribute to a person’s audio enjoyment experience? Is it the equipment, the measurements, or our perception and/or by how much of each?
https://teachingexcellence.mit.edu/inspiring-teachers/amar-bose-6-312-lecture-01-introduction
In hindsight, knowing that the lecture he gave in the video was to pique the interest of his students in the course material to come, I can also say it did the same me. What I can also say is that I would not have lasted another hour in his class given the glimpse of the level of mathematics they were about to get involved in. I am certain about that.