If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to read ACX 101: The Audiobook Production Process, which provides
some very useful background information on the process of making an audiobook, and which I will refer to during many of these articles.
Unless or until these two
very basic issues can be, and are addressed, in a rational, non-hysterical manner, then what passes for scientific discussion is, to this observer, not all that far removed from the random noises coming from a
very animated mob, with the actually
useful information being drowned out in the
background noise.