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Learn and grow

Progress is always good, but it is also important to understand where progress is most needed. You design amplifiers for a living, I do something else. I probably know more about your profession, as an amateur, than you know about mine. Consumers are the final arbiters of taste, but they can never of course be as informed as professionals. Still, I hope I never said that a couple of measurements were enough, that would indeed be a mistake. Information is not necesarily equivalent to knowledge because it can frequently be misguided, even for the most enlightened designers. When you have a screwdriver you see screws everywhere... This is true of doctors, lawyers, engineers...you name it.

FM distortion is nonlinear distortion of the signal in the time domain. I'm sure it's a worthwhile goal to reduce it. But how much more phase distortion is being induced by speakers and rooms? We must keep things in perspective. Measurements are useful for that too.

Right now as a consumer I am a lot more interested in progress (and the dissemination and commercial application of exisiting knowledge base instead of all this nonsense) in the fields of loudspeaker and room correction than amplification or digital.

Learn and grow indeed.

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