Why is science just a starting point and not an end point?

Science has to be applied. That’s what engineers do.

Science has to be created and studied with thinking experiments and perceptions... Any application come after that and will exclude something and include something else in it, it is a trade-off exhange...It is an art with freedom...

Engineers applied some rules derived from science but there is a trade-off at each walking pace, then engineering is like medecine an art also....

Great engineers are artist not just scientific mind... They are able to improvise and able to navigate all trade-off choices....

It is the reason why Henri Poincaré whom was at the same time one of the greatest mathematician and physicist of his century was proud MAINLY to be an engineer first and last... He was consulted as so in a great mine disaster for which he did the complete analysis...Science applications not only mimic art but are an art in itself....Leonardo Da VInci amalgamate the two like Michel- Angelo....

Bob Carver accepted the amplifier challenge from Stereophile, many years ago, and won. He showed that he could duplicate the sound of an expensive amplifier


Then why is he making tube amps now.

There was a time when one could look at a contributor’s profile and see, not only all of that person’s posts in the various threads, but also the tally of total number of posts according to category (“analog”, “digital”, “misc”, etc.); posts in threads either initiated, or participated in. When participating in or following a discussion where the topic was, or turned to, the issue of objectivity (science) vs subjectivity I would find it interesting to look at a poster’s post tally according to category after trying to guess which category would have the most, or the least, number of posts. Not always, but the OVERWHELMING majority of the time the objectivist would have very few and usually zero posts in the “music” category, or passing mention of that general topic in posts in other categories. Not sure that one can make general assumptions, but likely that there is something to extrapolate from this curious factoid.

Mahgister, your legs may be doing the walking but your brain is controlling the show. So many things happen when you walk that you are totally unaware of. Your arms swing and the muscle attached to your pelvis tighten to keep the opposite side from falling when you pick your legs up. Same is true of hearing. 

@frogman, I seriously doubt people who dislike music spend serious money on stereo systems. Music preferences are purely subjective and a matter of taste. Stereo systems are not. If you want to improve the performance of your system an objective approach will get your there faster at much less expense.  

No one said anything about “dislike”. Of course one has to like music to some degree to bother with stereo. Not a question of “dislike”, but rather the level of involvement in one pursuit vs the other.

**** ......Stereo systems are not (subjective) ****

Really? Then why such varied ideas as to what “good sound” is?

**** If you want to improve the performance of your system an objective approach will get your there faster at much less expense.  ****

  Not so sure.