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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents....

Post Subject: ListeningPosted by Vasyachkin on: 11/3/2008

drdna wrote:
I will hope to hear Vasyachkin make some comments on the problems he was encountering with the sonics that may be solved with this novel solution of waveguides.

to be honest listening to stuff is not my thing. it's not that i don't hear things - i just don't find listening as interesting. i became interested in engineering when i was about 7 years old and in hi-fi when i was about 15. it was only recently when i even realized that listening has any value in design process at all, but even though i realize this now it's just not how my head works - for me designing is still separate from listening.

everybody should use their head the way their head naturally works. i like to think conceptually. i like to rotate 3D shapes inside my head and visualize dispersion patterns more than i like to listen to them.

i understand the problem Romy has with this - his argument is that i didn't even hear the problems that i am trying to solve, and i am not saying that's not the case. but i see no reason not to solve a problem if know how to do it simply because i haven't experienced the problem.

i mean lets say i have never starved and never had AIDS that doesn't mean i can't worry about solving those problems.

bottom line is i don't see any conflict between the two approaches to design. theory has to be used to formulate new ideas and designs and practice has to determine which of these have any merit.

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