Re: Two Bose 802 questions
And even smaller yet is the number consumer who understands what a specification says, and has the judgement and perspective to relate that to an application. It almost always comes down to a decision tree involving is this spec good or bad with a bigger/smaller number, and is this amp more or less than that amp.
I am not aware that this is really a huge problem. Amp designers have been actually making these design decisions for decades, and consumers have learned which amps work or not.
As a design engineer I am very much a proponent of empirical objective metrics that can be used in design. It would sure make my job easier. The elephant in the room is that music is a bit of moving target.
If somebody wants to invest some brain cells on an industry standard define Q for me. 
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@Drew... Look for the old 901 EQ curves, as I recall you could see the boom/sizzle more easily.
re: CAF again I am not aware of any problem with suitability of install amps to work as expected.
@ALL this will be moot as soon as the world goes completely powered speakers and the speaker engineers (like Ivan) get to spec the power amps inside.
JR
