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It is becoming clear that even speaker manufacturers don't know the outside potential of their designs. They only work up the speakers with a set of components and cannot have a holistic understanding of the potential. Even dealers who make less systems don't know the outside parameters of performance. It's somewhat ignorant, then, to say one has maxed out the speaker's performance, because with consistency in system development a better sound WILL be forthcoming.

The comment is mine, after 13 years of reviewing and elevating performance of speakers. Though I am not going on record yet with extension of the thought, I suspect that it holds true also for components and cables.  :) 
douglas_schroeder

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Well yes indeed
if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there....
i would say start with a deep love of live unamplified music so you have a reference, chasing your tail otherwise
research the physical  and mental ways in which we hear - for example as a designer do you believe human hearing is more/equal/less sensitive to time information vs amplitude ?
system objectives come next which might with thought provide what we call the balanced trade space: cost , size, efficiency, full range, portable, etc....
then develop some design principles like : pre-ring should be avoided, wavelaunch that looks like the test signal, pistonic behavior in the driver, breakup x cycles away from crossover, cabinet nodes x dB down

probably a decent book in this, might look like designing, building, testing , and improving over time an airplane....
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