To be fair to all parties, it is also important to define what constitutes "listening".
If it means hooking the final design up to a system and seeing if it sounds good and exhibits no aberrant behavior under load, then I'm positive that every piece of audio equipment qualifies to one extent or another. If "listening" means blind testing under truly neutral conditions, then perhaps quite a few pieces don't meet that standard. However, I'd suspect that is more true for the gear that is popular with the high end segment of the audiophile crowd. If "listening" means sighted conditions with extended navel-gazing and a search for flowery hyperbole, then perhaps there are a number of engineers who don't meet that standard when they audition their designs. As always, it's tough to have conversations when there isn't a common consensus as to what words mean. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93542 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
