Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 2004/07

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Graphs revisited
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:30:29 -0400

--- Ormondtoby Montoya <ormondtoby@-----.net> wrote:
> Someone here commented "Considering the amount of money that
> manufacturers spend on advertising..."

That would probably have been me, more or less (not an exact quote, but close.
:-)

> This raises an issue about acoustical science --- namely, companies such
> as Buffet and Yamaha and so forth certainly can afford the equipment
> that graphs audio spectra. In fact, I have to believe that at least
> some of the major manufacturers have at least looked at spectral graphs
> as part of their product development cycle.
>
> If a manufacturer had spotted something in graphs that could be used to
> distinguish between models (or brands) --- something more informative
> than the tired adjectives that they use, which I'm sure they probably
> snicker at themselves --- I'm certain that we would've seen graphs in
> advertisements or catalogs by now.

But how meaningful would those graphs be? I'm not sure we know yet how to
quantify (which is what a graph would do) that which is mostly qualitative. And
even if they did include graphs, all the manuafacturers would start to do it;
and they'd all end up being just as meaningful (or not) as the "pretty words".

Regards,

Andy

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