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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 4531879" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>Any designer worth the name takes component tolerance into account. 5% resistors are much cheaper than 1% and as long as that 8% difference in max/min potential values is accounted for the engineer can produce a quality, reliable amp for less money. The key there is to overdesign the amp knowing that worst case the goal is met and best case the amp is amazing.</p><p></p><p>The need for matched components and all the other stuff is marketing. It might make you feel good to know that you have an amp with matched transistors that's hand tuned by some PhD engineer but I let the sound I get, not the credentials of the guy who "tuned" its amps combined with the substantially greater amount of money in my bank acount make me feel good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 4531879, member: 550915"] Any designer worth the name takes component tolerance into account. 5% resistors are much cheaper than 1% and as long as that 8% difference in max/min potential values is accounted for the engineer can produce a quality, reliable amp for less money. The key there is to overdesign the amp knowing that worst case the goal is met and best case the amp is amazing. The need for matched components and all the other stuff is marketing. It might make you feel good to know that you have an amp with matched transistors that's hand tuned by some PhD engineer but I let the sound I get, not the credentials of the guy who "tuned" its amps combined with the substantially greater amount of money in my bank acount make me feel good. [/QUOTE]
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