[sdiy] design experts

[Bert Schiettecatte]

>This happened just today, on the Tube Collector list. A crusty
>old engineer who designs switching power supplies for satellites 
>made lots of snide putdowns about fast-recovery rectifiers, and how
>they can't POSSIBLY be audible in a tube amp. 
>The guy does not own and has never owned a tube amp....
>but he does own lots of textbooks!

This is exactly why I ask myself every single day whether I should
continue my phd or not. I've learned so much more useful stuff the past
year by just reading stuff and meeting people, than I have learned the
past couple of years in university. I've also learnt that text books are
no substitute for experience in that 6th sense of audio engineering. 

Bert

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