Great read here on Stereophile, from the head engineer of a German company, MBL, about his learning experience when he was just getting started 30 years ago...
For those of you who know my background a bit, I'm sure you can see many reasons I might relate to this guy. The story he tells is a classic case of, "if you measure the right things the right way, you can develop correlation between what you measure and what you hear" - but it requires moving beyond the obvious (in one sense) in a thoughtful way as to how you approach the problem... Cutting the Gordian knot, as it were.
It's also the classic story of why just designing equipment for the "normal" test bench environment will only take you so far- but looking at the total system behavior, and the interface between components and the real world, can be quite rewarding.
A must read, in my opinion... :T
Right now I'm working on a several design problems, one for work, and couple for returning to my interest in amplifiers, and I can say that being completely successful in these circumstances, (if one measures success by achieving the highest level of system performance) requires some special thought and more care in the interface between functional systems...
We'll be looking at more of these issues in the future "On the Bench".
For those of you who know my background a bit, I'm sure you can see many reasons I might relate to this guy. The story he tells is a classic case of, "if you measure the right things the right way, you can develop correlation between what you measure and what you hear" - but it requires moving beyond the obvious (in one sense) in a thoughtful way as to how you approach the problem... Cutting the Gordian knot, as it were.
It's also the classic story of why just designing equipment for the "normal" test bench environment will only take you so far- but looking at the total system behavior, and the interface between components and the real world, can be quite rewarding.
A must read, in my opinion... :T
Right now I'm working on a several design problems, one for work, and couple for returning to my interest in amplifiers, and I can say that being completely successful in these circumstances, (if one measures success by achieving the highest level of system performance) requires some special thought and more care in the interface between functional systems...
We'll be looking at more of these issues in the future "On the Bench".
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