Thanks for the comments, Al and Ralph.
@atmasphere , on a side note, I discovered the Yr album by Steve Tibbetts in 1980 while working at my college radio station and flipped out over his music. We put it into Heavy Rotation. That's where I got my start in audio engineering, since Syracuse was a top broadcast school, engineers were full-time employees and required to have an FCC license.
Now, getting back to my SE design question regarding CJ, is this a case of the company finding a design that reproduced very high quality sound and stayed with it since their products were and are still are so successful?
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@atmasphere , on a side note, I discovered the Yr album by Steve Tibbetts in 1980 while working at my college radio station and flipped out over his music. We put it into Heavy Rotation. That's where I got my start in audio engineering, since Syracuse was a top broadcast school, engineers were full-time employees and required to have an FCC license.
Now, getting back to my SE design question regarding CJ, is this a case of the company finding a design that reproduced very high quality sound and stayed with it since their products were and are still are so successful?
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I'd imagine that a factor in many cases is that designers tend to use approaches they are familiar with, and that build upon their previous work, unless there is a compelling reason to change. And the fact that any given design is likely to be used in many systems in conjunction with associated components that are single-ended would seem to make the case for change less compelling.