Test gear as fast as a human can hear is crazy expensive and is a poor substitute for mother nature. All I can say is in the end it all comes down to time and the analog realm of sounds waves and your ears/brain perceiving them. There isn't a piece of test gear on earth that can compare to the human senses. A good analogy are the mass spectrometers my brother in law engineered at Rosemount Instruments in Calgary. Sure they can pickup cocaine on 100 dollar bills but compared to a dog's nose... Forget it nature and the dog's nose wins hands down! Field testing proves and the dog wins every time. It's these truths that make electronic engineering as it pertains to sound and video a total and complete art form.

Wouldn't you think if one could simply perform an "oscilloscope scan" and quantify components or a final piece's overall performance wouldn't everybody simply end up with the same designs? Why the plethora of audio video equipment in existence? IF your supposition was reality don't you think that to save money and maximize profits all electronics outfits would simply all use the same parts, same designs etc and all be clones? If you can quantify this stuff as you guys suggest you'd think that by now there would be a be all end all way to say... make a CD player?

Solid-State

Last edited by SolidState; 08/20/09 04:35 PM.