Quote Originally Posted by awkwardbydesign View Post
An engineer can certainly explain the circuit, but won't necessarily understand the sonic implications. In fact, an engineering background may well bias against hearing any difference. Not in all cases, obviously, or there would be very few advances in sonics.
Indeed, and we see it all the time on forums, from engineers who display rather too much cynicism/rigid thinking, together with a painfully closed mind. If it's not in 'Johnny's book of scientific facts', it's automatically dismissed as imagined!

Thankfully, Nick's not like that, and neither are others here from an electronics engineering background, whose technical abilities and ears I rate. Because of what you've outlined, I also don't buy the 'designer always knows best' mantra, as quite simply, they don't - not *always*!

Marco.