6  A System for Evaluating Sound

The many different positions of the audio industry and their unique needs for sound evaluation create a need for a sound-evaluation system that can be readily transferred to a variety of contexts. It must easily yield meaningful and significant information to people of diverse backgrounds and job functions. The method must transfer between musical contexts and abstract, critical-listening applications.

The aspects of sound evaluated and shaped by people in audio cannot be described using our current vocabulary. No way to accurately talk about sound is available.

A system for evaluating sound will be presented over the next chapters. The system can be adapted to be useful to all people in the audio industry, and ...

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