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RE: ""which criteria happened to be non-subjective""

"Specifications, measurements, are not conducted until after the fact: after the device "sounds good."

Sounds like you believe the marketing literature. The time to use these techniques is before doing subjective listening as they are a quick and efficient way to eliminate many obvious mistakes and navigate through a large maze of design possibilities. Unrestricted "cut and try" is simply a waste of time. The exception would be when making a minor change to an existing design. That case is really not an exception, because it is part of an ongoing design process.

Published "specifications" are marketing literature. If a manufacturer is honest they must be determined after a product has been completed and is in production. They are not to be confused with preliminary specifications, which are a list of design requirements and goals.

I doubt that successful artisan designers are quite so simple minded as you believe. If they convey such an image, chances are it is part of the mystic they are promulgating.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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