Atmasphere, are you saying there is no "art" involved in designing amps and preamps? If it is all engineering, then given any number of competent designers using the same circuit, would they not develop identical sounding amps and preamps because they would all make the same design decisions based on engineering specifications regarding wires, caps, solder, etc? Or why do competent designers choose different circuits if they all have the same goal, namely to make a component sound as much like real music as possible?
In the May/June 2012 issue of TAS there is a series of interviews of nine leading electronics designers. One who is surely competent is Nelson Pass. In the article he wrote "If there has been progress (in the improvement of electronics), it has been where the subjective character has been refined in the service of the listener's experience. To paraphrase McLluhan, we are turning our mature technologies into art."
Much of the design work at Pass Labs, I've read, is by trying something in a design and then subjecting the prototype to intensive listening tests and then modifying it until they are pleased with the result.
This process may not be called "voicing", but it does seem to involve some subjective decision making. Is that not "art". I appreciate your views and contributions as a designer on these forums. Thanks.
In the May/June 2012 issue of TAS there is a series of interviews of nine leading electronics designers. One who is surely competent is Nelson Pass. In the article he wrote "If there has been progress (in the improvement of electronics), it has been where the subjective character has been refined in the service of the listener's experience. To paraphrase McLluhan, we are turning our mature technologies into art."
Much of the design work at Pass Labs, I've read, is by trying something in a design and then subjecting the prototype to intensive listening tests and then modifying it until they are pleased with the result.
This process may not be called "voicing", but it does seem to involve some subjective decision making. Is that not "art". I appreciate your views and contributions as a designer on these forums. Thanks.