Audio design is moving forward – or is it?

With all our focus on individual designs and equipment and trying to improve our amps and speakers, it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. Stan Curtis, who has literally designed 100's of audio components but also founded several well-regarded audio companies, steps back and looks at that big picture. He concludes that for analog audio, we're pretty much at the point where possible improvements are small and incremental, but that with digital audio there's still a lot of work to be done.