Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ?

Or maybe Danny Ritchie is creating FUD?  Are these expensive speakers well reviewed and well regarded? Do most people like how they sound? Maybe their designers know something? ..hmmm

Lots of failure points ..

The Denafrips has loads of resistors and capacitors and that seems pretty important.  

Audiophiles trust their ears .... except when they don't.

I could use the best "looking" quality parts and make a total unreliable unit, and I could use no-name, but quality components from China and make a product that is highly reliable.


If I saw a hand soldered PCB I would be leery of reliability but taking off the lid is not going to show that normally. Really it is not going to show much.

Are you measuring the components temperature during operation? If not, then again, just hearing with your eyes.

One person's "neat" wiring is another's excessively long conductors, lack of star grounding, lack of equal resistance/thermal paths for capacitors, etc.


One person gets thrilled by "audio" caps in a power supply, another thinks waste of money compared to high volume switch mode capacitors (that work as well), and wonders if they measured the inrush current, how is the ripple current, did anyone do in-situ temperature measurements to look at the capacitor life?

What is "clean" and acceptable for low frequency and/or where noise does not matter (i.e. an industrial control panel) could be completely at odds with a good analog layout.

teo,

Did you get picked on by an engineer when you were a kid ....or made fun of by one as an adult?


That's some serious baggage you are carrying.

A ratsnet with lead-tin wire or beautiful point to point with lead free. Which will fail first? If you want reliable go back to wire wrap.

What has a bigger impact on sound, architecture or components and assembly?

Funny, I thought we were paying for how it sounds. How many have asked for speakers to be taken apart to see what is inside them?  That would tell you more than the inside of most electronics will about how something will sound.