borosteve wrote:

Laurence Payne wrote:
borosteve wrote:

WOW! That stirred things up a bit!! So there we have it,Cd players all
sound the same,as do amplifiers.Cables make no difference but speakers
make all the difference. Now I now where I've been gong wrong all
these years.

No stirring really. That's just the common opinion of people who work
with audio as opposed to audiophile hobbyists. Source quality matters
(and I mean the recording, not what plays it.) Speaker choice and
placement matters. Everything else needs to be competent, and mostly
is these days.

What do you mean by "work with audio"? Do you mean people who use
audio in their work? i.e.musicians,producers etc?Or do you mean people
that repair equipment, like a service engineer?

Pro-audio circuit / equipment designer here (mixers and power amplifiers
mainly but recently did some DSP and wrote my own reverb algorithms) and
occasional live sound mixing engineer. I've recently also been active again
in the recording studio business.

Currently designing a microprocessor controlled (ramps the voltages and
allows remote power up/down of multiple supplies) very low noise kilowatt
power level multi-rail power supply for large Neve consoles (they need up to
3 of them) as an replacement alternative to the original offering (they get
'tired' after many years).


Graham