The other half of that story......and I can not name names, but...... "We" were supposed to be coming up with a better power supply for some company's product. I had doubts that we could, because the product itself was flawed, and it to be backwards compatible. IOW, make a better outboard POC without fixing the original POC, where the problem actually existed.
So, "other obscure designer" and myself each made a new supply. We had a "shoot-out" of the two. "OK, put mine on. Ok, now put yours on." Repeat a few times. "Ok, I think I know how each sounds. Switch them out at random, and let's see if I can guess which one is which." After a short time...... "OK, I think that one is mine. Right?" "Yep." "OK, put the other one on now. Yep, first one is better. First is mine?" "Yep, you're right. It is yours." The only thing that he was right about was that #1 was his. #2 was also his! In fact, -they all were his!- I never hooked mine up. So, a slight twist on "No. 2". Especially when ego is involved. A few more examples of that (like flunking the preamp test), we decided to go our own ways. Despite being deaf, bone-headed and wrong most of the time, he did go on to make some good sounding stuff. Interestingly, because of its nature, it was something that I could quantify with all of our TDRs, spectrum analysers and network analysers. All he had to work with was his stubbournness and a Tek 475. Pat -- ar-t http://www.analogresearch-technology.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ar-t's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
