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In Reply to: Re: That's what I was thinking.... posted by Scott Frankland on May 05, 2003 at 12:00:42:

Very few high-end designers rely solely on measurements, but measurements do play a crucial role in any amplifier design, even if the designer himself refuses to make them. Bear in mind that anyone who uses a triode vacuum-tube in their amplifier is the direct beneficiary of thousands of hours of test and measurment work in the optimization process that led to the Western Electric 300B, the RCA 2A3, etc.
Certainly. But for the designer, it's ultimately the end result that counts. No one can listen to JUST a 300B tube. The tube is merely one element among a number of other elements which combine to give us what we ultimately listen to in the end.
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Re: That's what I was thinking.... - Scott Frankland 11:57:45 05/06/03 (0)
A great amplifier may contain serendipitous design elements, but its design process is not random. My point is that amplifier design rests on a long-established "theory-laden" foundation. Agreed that the end result is what counts and that is *not* a measurement but a human perception. The value of any audio measurement is thus determined by how much it *correlates* to human perception. One can make an argument that there is very little that correlates (and vice versa).

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