Should a designer/builder use both measurements and listening when building?

[Wavebourn]

I vote no!

With all the good simulation software available these day (spice, and others) why would anyone need to measure or listen? Just sim it and you're ready to go! What could be easier?

This is the 21st century, isn't it? Let's get on with it.

The answer is in my signature, Pano!

 

[DF96]

sy's post suddenly made sense and was funny really need more sleep!

Just in case anyone is alarmed, the target of our humour appears to be a native English speaker (although perhaps with a funny accent) and a new moderator (so therefore thick-skinned and recently well-beaten). I hope none of us would poke fun at the spelling of a non-English speaker.

Of course, it is often the case that 'foreigners' write better English than some native-speakers. I am afraid I tend to ignore posts written in textspeak (no or random capitalisation/punctuation/paragraphing/spelling) if they appear to come from English-speaking parts of the world.

 

[sreten]

Its not a daft question

A better question might be can it be done using ears only, not should it be. Not easily IMO.

would also be a 'daft' question I mean, it would have very little 'reason'

but you might better ask, 'using measurements only

that might be a little less predetermined but again, I think
it would be strange to design a speaker without listening to it

Hi,

No it isn't.
Many people have no real measuring equipment above a multimeter.
It surprising how far you can get using your ears and a good test CD.

But I agree, using all means that are at your disposal seems obvious.

rgds, sreten.