"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
...

And obviously the engineers I quoted don't think "designing by the book"
is
a terrific approach if one wants to approach the state-of-the-art at a
given
price point. They factor "listening" as an important part of the
equation.

How does this work in practice. Let's say an engineer has designed an
amplifier "by the book" and it performs on the bench like the book says it
should. Now the engineer listens to it and finds that the PRAT is poor--or
perhaps the soundstage is too narrow. What does he do now? How does he
link a circuit design change to what he subjectively hears? Although I'm a
design engineer myself, I wouldn't know where to start.

Norm Strong