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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,583
    Sometimes, good is better than best.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,066
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    A flute with no holes in not a flute.....but a donut with no holes is a....

    Anyone.... anyone.... so what is a donut w no holes.... and name the movie.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,970
    The best boss I ever had was (is!) a wise and thoughtful man. He is also the greatest advocate an employee can have (if he thinks suitably highly of said employee). He and I worked together in various capacities for a long time (16 years, give or take) and we still cross paths professionally now and again.

    This long preface :) is meant as a preamble to a small set of aphorisms I gleaned from him over (now) more than two decades of association. I call these "Scoble's Laws of Biotech Process Development" (but they are broadly applicable in many disciplines and also in real life, I think). I refer to these often as a consultant in (ahem) biotech process development & in the glycobiology course I teach.

    Upon reflection, these are favorite quotes to me as well.
    1. Begin with the end in mind.
    2. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
    3. We can do anything… but we cannot do everything.
    4. [Whatever the challenge/roadblock/ “opportunity”] There is a path forward.*

    * Hardy's Corollary to the Fourth Law: Chaos is opportunity.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    From my Ex, old-world Italian Father in Law, "The fish stinks from the head", and "Follow the Money".
    From my Tech School Instructor, 1st class, 1st day, "An A****le's, an A****le's, an A****le, get used to it, because you're going to run into them your whole life"
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  • Jim Shearer
    Jim Shearer Posts: 369
    As a (now retired) analytical chemist... we used to say:

    "One Measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."

    You may now begin the flame war over how this applies to audio!
    A day without music is like a day without food.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    "Poopie stinks!" - unnamed
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,970
    Jim Shearer wrote: »
    As a (now retired) analytical chemist... we used to say:

    "One Measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."

    You may now begin the flame war over how this applies to audio!


    Tee-hee! ;)

    (FWIW), I think it's easy :) to map to audio. Hermon Hosmer Scott's famed Chief Engineer, Daniel von Recklinghausen, did it -- at least as far as I'm concerned.
    "If it measures good and sounds bad, -- it is bad. If it sounds good and measures bad, -- you've measured the wrong thing."

    http://hhscott.com/vonrecklinghausen.htm

    I actually think it's a little more complicated than that -- in the sense that they (we) often measure the wrong thing because we don't know what the right thing to measure is. That's actually a less teleological statement than it sounds to be, believe it or not :)

    Take distortion. THD was long the bad guy because it is easy to measure and because it is a good, quantitative measurement of the onset of amplifier clipping. But high THD in and of itself doesn't correlate terribly well with perceived good sound quality. Single-ended amplifiers produce relatively high levels of the second harmonic as a distortion product. The second harmonic is exactly one octave above the fundamental -- and consequently it sounds good. We don't mind even very high levels of "euphonic" harmonic distortion. Here's a good example :)

    https://youtu.be/nrIPxlFzDi0
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,667
    If you could see inside my head you'd see that black and white is read.....

    Ozzy Osbourne 1982
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  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    edited December 2016
    The height of despair:

    "And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
    So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'"

    Shakespeare's "King Lear."
    Edgar, Act IV, Scene i.
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