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In Reply to: RE: How do you know? posted by john curl on February 4, 2011 at 12:26:58:
"Unfortunately, this does NOT help to make the HIGHEST QUALITY audio reproduction. Just 'good enough'."
That seems to be the way of it. Today's consumers, i.e. the kids spending their parents money, know their ABC's: Acceptance (by their peers), Bling and Coolness. Sadly even folks old enough to know better want the same things, after all they don't want to appear 'over the hill'. And that means portable, flashy and flexible rather than profound.
On the other hand you've been in this game quite a spell, just when was there a golden age of parts for audio applications? Hasn't it always been largely a matter of doing the best you can with what's out there? There seems to be a pretty good selection of passives currently, perhaps this a metallic age of some color for them? On top of that most of the development beyond computers is targeted at switchers and the same technology being developed for them makes class D amplifiers better.
Of course we are becoming obsolete also (I'm there) and that's always a factor. When I started out in the late '60s there were two things helping to drive openings in the electronics industry, firstly it was still mostly domestic and secondly a whole slew of guys decided to throw in the towel as transistors came to the fore. They hated them with a passion, they liked tubes, understood tubes, had decades of experience with tube designs and damned if they were going to soldier on if forced to use distasteful technology. And a mini version of that happened with IC's, there was a lot of concern in the mid 70's that the only place circuit design would be done was at the semiconductor outfits. That passed quickly though and without nearly as much loss and we became more system oriented. And then came digital and mircocontrollers and and and here we are today coming to grips with class D amplifiers while digital speakers are perhaps being perfected. At some point, the thrill is gone...
On the other hand, I'm just amazed at the range of stuff still being used, sold and designed on a limited basis. About the only technology I don't currently see represented is Mag. Amps. and I may be overlooking them!
Regards, Rick
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