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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 108134" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Two Bose 802 questionsAnd 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. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.@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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 108134, member: 126"] 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. :-). @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 [/QUOTE]

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