maty said: I watched the video last night. John Siau demonstrates knowledge that goes beyond the EE. Over the years, engineering has become too specialized. Click to expand...

I think John Siau is someone who obviously is having fun at what he is doing. I think it was mentioned one difference is having better tools than in the past. I think lots of work is using those tools to get okay performance (using guidelines of the past) and stopping there. If you work for others that is going to be a big constraint because more is slower and expensive. I think what Mr. Siau has done is simple in one sense. He is like someone from 40 years ago, who says "if we could just do this to the n'th degree possible, then we could get a handle on this, and on this. We could potentially build an amazing device limited mostly by thermal noise." So not to diminish what he and his company have managed to produce, but basically as described they took every issue on one at a time and just kept knocking it on and until there is no where else to go. Good enough wasn't. Best possible according to the physics of electronic design is what they were after.Now Mr. Siau is someone who is good at achieving this in an efficient manner I would think. And it does take a coming together of desire, motivation, experience, knowledge and a knack for running things to make this happen. A coming together which isn't common or you'd see more superlative products like his company produces. I'm much more impressed by products like his that push the boundaries of what is possible for somewhat expensive, but not crazy expensive gear. Maybe MSB gets performance like his, but at 20 times the cost. Color me less impressed. I'm also disappointed with Bruno Putzey's. He early one I think had some of the same aims. I think he has seen how easy it is to roll in the dough with the high end mythos and has sold out to it. Maybe not fully, but while his own best work is right up there it also has moved right up there with crazy expensive gear.