From: nobody@but.us.chickens   
      
   On 5/30/2010 2:14 AM geoff spake thus:   
      
   > Dick Pierce wrote:   
    >   
   >> geoff wrote:   
    >>   
   >>> David Nebenzahl wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Meaning the right *resistance* value. Not necessarily the same   
   >>>> *wattage*. Since it's been pretty well established that this is NOT   
   >>>> a fusible resistor that can "protect" the drivers, there's no harm   
   >>>> in using a higher-power resistor.   
   >>>   
   >>> Naa, Dick suggests indirectly that  (say) a cap +10% and/or  a   
   >>> resistor -10% won't compromise any paramter of a crossover design. But   
   >>> he'll say he never suggested any such thing.   
   >>   
   >> Probably because, in fact, he didn't say any such thing.   
   >>   
   >> What he DID say is that in particular circumstances, a   
   >> wide tolerance in value will have negligable effects on   
   >> actual performance,   
   >   
   > Which applies for many things - so why bother to put any effort into making   
   > anything good ?   
   >   
   >> even to the point of being unmeasurable.   
   >   
   > I think you could measure  the differences in my example with a cheap   
   > multimeter.   
      
   Oh, come on, you're playing semantics games here. You know damn well   
   that he (Dick Pierce) was referring to measuring the performance of the   
   system, not just the value of the component.   
      
      
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