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Re: After all the debates lately I ran accross this Quote!!!

Posted by audio845 (A) on September 11, 2004 at 10:44:41

In Reply to: After all the debates lately I ran accross this Quote!!! posted by TomWh on September 11, 2004 at 09:02:17:

You are correct, there are good and bad engineers. However I do not think there are many great engineers working on mass-market or even higher end audio. Several years ago while working as a physician I had the opportunity to talk with many engineers. I was just getting into tube audio DIY at the time and had noticed that different kinds and brands of resistors sounded different. I'm an amateur pianist and have fairly good set of ears and this phenomenon aroused my curiosity. I asked engineer after engineer why different resistors might sound different in a circuit and they all looked at me blankly and said "they don't". Well it was obvious to me that they did so I kept on asking until I found in engineer who said "oh, you know why that is....." and proceeded to give me a phenomenally clear and concise lecture regarding the fact that no resistor is a perfect resistor and that they all also have inductance and capacitance and how this would affect the sound. After the lesson I looked at him and asked him why the other engineers had said there was no difference in sound from resistor to resistor. He looked at me and said dismissively "contract engineers". This particular gentleman was an engineer at the forefront of his particular technology and had his own company which was quite well known. The problem is that engineers like this are few and far between and even fewer of these have been interested in audio. Personally I wish more of them were involved as some of the mysteries might actually be better understood. In the meantime I trust my ears.

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