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In Reply to: Re: Those who know Bob Pease... posted by Victor Khomenko on June 16, 2003 at 16:29:33:
As I mentioned before, my concern for the high DA dielectrics sort of dissappeared when we had discovered that some capacitors with tremendously high DA's can indeed sound extremely well. That simply pointed out to me that our understanding of what makes a good sounding part, a capacitor in this case, is still quite rudimentary at best, and that perhaps our broad desire to achive as low a DA as possible might not be completely justified.I mean - people tend to assign all sorts of horrible sonic attributes to parts with just slightly higher than perfect DA numbers... yet here we have something that should sound like complete crap based on that theory, but it doesn't.
The problem though is that "sounds good" is a subjective evaluation and there is a very broad range of differences as to what "sounds good." One person's "sounds good" may well be another person's "It made my ears bleed."
Which is why I think it's something of a folly to try and equate "sounds good" to any particular objective parameter. At best you can hope to find some correlation among some number of individuals. Which is fine from say a marketing standpoint where you're trying to satisfy the broadest number of people in a given market.
But I don't think there's ever going to be anything akin to a Grand Unified Field theory which will be able to determine what "sounds good" for every individual which I think some seem to think is out there waiting to be discovered.
I simply think that there's much more still unknown.
Certainly. But by the same token, there's much that is known that is often either overlooked or in some cases, complete denial.
*shrug*
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- Re: Those who know Bob Pease... - Steve Eddy 18:34:32 06/16/03 (0)
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