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but you would be surprised to see how MANY companies, and mfgs. "shoot themselves in the foot" trying to cut corners, for price points, the bottom line, and for the company "bean counters".



Larry,

You beat me to the punch. It's not the engineers that make the final decision. It's up to the product manager, who is neither an engineer, or a bean counter. He's the poor slob in the middle that has to take all of the scientific mumbo jumbo coming from the engineers, and go to the bean counters to justify WHY they must use the .22 cent capacitors in the power supply vs. the .10 cent ones that the bean counters found in some catalog with similar specs. One side wants to make the best quality piece of equipment that he can - his "opus", and the other side just wants to shave a few pennies per unit in production costs. So it's not the engineers "shooting themselves in the foot", they just lose the occassional business battle. Corporate life, you gotta love it. (Well, OK. You don't "gotta".)

M- M60s/VP150/QS8s/SVS PC-Ultra/HK630 Sit down. Shut up. Listen.