"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote

Well as I said before, it depends what you mean by "audio
engineer". You clearly think it means "recording
engineer" with access to multi-mike set-ups and a source
of live music.


I suggest that there are many, many audio
engineers who never get anywhere near a recording studio,
indeed never do any recording at all.

..and I'm saying that I know a number of guys who have this kind of
involvement with engineering (automotive sound is a big thing in this
town) and they generally think that music has a purpose.

My comment was addressed to Dave P who seems to think that the term "audio
engineer" means "recording engineer".

I accept that the overwhelming majority of audio engineers (of all types)
listen to music and think it important. Audio equipment designers, for
example, are probably doing that because they like to hear music reproduced
as well as possible.

But it's not *necessary* to like music, think it important or understand
music theory to be an audio engineer (unless you are a music recording
engineer). Not all audio is music, a lot of it is human speech and those who
work in those areas need not have any appreciation of music at all.

David.