Are most posters on here audio engineers or have advanced educations in audio?
Most of the stuff I read is way over my head. I've read posts about REW and can't comprehend most of what I read or where to start. And I'm a very successful and intelligent person.
Is there an 'Audio for Dummies' book? Should I look into some college courses. I really enjoy screwing around with my HT but it drives me nuts that I don't know what I'm doing.
I've been at this audio game for 14 years (and by some peoples definition, that's a small amount of time.)
But no, it's not like I just learned it all yesterday.
It's like swimming or riding a bike or driving a car. At first you are a nervous-wreak filled with fear, uncertainty, and lack of knowledge/skill. Then it becomes old hat and relaxing... or even boring.
I'm a software developer with an average IQ of about ~120 or so (depending on the exact questions and how much I care to participate).
If I put 2-7 years of effort into it I could probably build my own REW (it's not THAT hard, but it is a
[email protected]* tonne of WORK though!)
There are varying degrees of software developers, from poor to godly.
If you are good at math and are only book-smart/scholastic (spock-like), that is a good START, but you still won't be a GOOD software developer.
To be a good software developer requires a person to have good math skills but also an inventor-mindset. If you lack either, you won't be a very good developer AT ALL really...
An inventor mindset is a very rare brain that can output more knowledge than what goes into it, or is at least: very observant, tinkerish and a problem solver, or a boundary pusher (thinks outside the box).
The very thing that even the very best computer-AI is extremely-poor at... oddly enough. (and probably never will be good at, or even decent at)...heck, even 90% of most human-AI is poor at that task (i.e. the 99% sheeple/useless eaters

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There are 4 types of people in this world:
1) Those who buy bags of ice of their own volition. (rich/lazy sloths / the foolish / the unprepared)
2) Those who can sell ice to Eskimos. (Opportunistic Wolves. Probably owns a freezer too!)
3) Those who make their own ice with freezers.
4) Those who are able to invent/make freezers/electricity, to cool water, to sell both freezers and bags of ice to the 99% who can't do either (for various rimes and reasons.)

Anyways... back on topic!
It takes time, it won't happen overnight. (Unless of course you have an IQ of 150+ and REALLY concentrate HARD while burning the midnight oil! Nearly anything is possible with sufficient effort and brainmatter I suppose\conjecture...

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