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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 64986" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: What does &#039;MI&#039; mean?A minor semantic quibble... but &quot;quality&quot; is generally a measure of how well a product delivers to it&#039;s design goals, often confused with higher performance feature sets demanded and paid for by more profession customers. So MI gear can be built to very high quality standards, but will generally lack professional product features. I even count things like ruggedness in package design and robust amplifier thermal headroom as &quot;features&quot; designed in, not &quot;quality&quot; related to process discipline that is assembled in. The MI market is much larger than the tip of the iceberg, pro market, so manufacturers respect the revenue involved. Pro customers OTOH generally look down on MI customers... One cause of tension between MI and pro community is when people try to use MI gear to accomplish professional tasks and fail. Advancements in technology over the last couple decades have dramatically improved the performance of MI gear, blurring the line between some of the performance differences and making this even more likely to happen.&nbsp; Good luck and have fun out there. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 64986, member: 126"] Re: What does 'MI' mean? A minor semantic quibble... but "quality" is generally a measure of how well a product delivers to it's design goals, often confused with higher performance feature sets demanded and paid for by more profession customers. So MI gear can be built to very high quality standards, but will generally lack professional product features. I even count things like ruggedness in package design and robust amplifier thermal headroom as "features" designed in, not "quality" related to process discipline that is assembled in. The MI market is much larger than the tip of the iceberg, pro market, so manufacturers respect the revenue involved. Pro customers OTOH generally look down on MI customers... One cause of tension between MI and pro community is when people try to use MI gear to accomplish professional tasks and fail. Advancements in technology over the last couple decades have dramatically improved the performance of MI gear, blurring the line between some of the performance differences and making this even more likely to happen. Good luck and have fun out there. JR [/QUOTE]

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