MOT discussions

Performance is a loaded term in this hobby. Consider your audience. You may want to be more specific.

 

I recommend to let folks arrive to their own conclusions Tom.

EDIT: I really hope this post does not come the wrong way Tom. @Marvey explains it best below.

 

Just a general word of advice: consider your audience. It never hurts to contextualize your message to the person(s) reading your post. Not all of us visit to your website or are aware of your work (this was the first I've heard of it). In fact, if I look at site analytics exploded against your posting, the vast majority of members never see anything you post and redirect/incoming traffic to/from your site is quite low from SBAF. I'd argue that for the the average person reading this thread, it's not obvious.

Additionally, how "successfully it is performed" is ambiguous. How the heck was I supposed to know you meant measured performance? How do I know which measurements? How do you know what performance metrics the people reading this thread find relevant in order to be sure that your usage of a loaded term is genuinely understood by others? What if heat output is genuinely important to me given the nature of my environment? Or thermal efficiency under load? What if overall power output is the most relevant performance metric for me? What if power noise rejection is important? What if it's MTTF? What if it's material properties? What if it's interference rejection from powerful emitters? What if it's load capacity because I have to stack things on my amp?

Using loaded terms like performance on a forum like this without being more specific tells everyone else that you don't care if they have a different perspective than you. Not everyone shares your context so your assumption that this should be common sense is slightly demeaning to our readers.

 

What UB means is to be careful when making statements about your amps in comparison to other manufacturers amps. I know you were replying to a question from @yotacowboy, but he should not have asked you that question in the first place because you are an MOT.

The last thing I want is another manufacturer reading your statements, creating an account, and starting a food fight of sorts.

 

Not any of your guys' fault. We haven't taken the time to formalize guidelines and rules for MOTs.

 

Moved this discussion here to avoid loading the "Solid-State Power Amp Adventures" thread. Kept @tomchr's original response back there though as it has some fairly valuable information pertaining to the thread's discussion, and replicated it here for context.

I'm also an EE. And my first language is Spanish. And can understand.

The concern is more related to keeping things clean. Whatever our focus may be (DIY, perceived performance, measured performance, and so forth), allowing vendors to evaluate other vendor's equipment in this forum, may turn ugly.

It's perhaps less of a problem if such things (measurements and evaluation) are dealt with by a third party with less of an direct vendor involvement (customers or a professional/non-professional reviewer). Like @Marvey said, we'll come up with some guidelines about this.