The classic armchair quarterback can be a valued member of any team. Their dispassionate views often add value to those actually making the plays.
But making the plays, designing the equipment, making the tough decisions of how to get from point A to point B is a very different challenge than what a critic faces.
What designers, engineers, and craftspeople bring to the table is hands-on experience—the hard-won skills to successfully bring a new product or service from an idea to a finished piece.
When I share my knowledge and experience of designing and building products with the HiFi Family it comes from a desire to help others see what I see without their having to spend 50 years accumulating it.
I truly love the role reviewers, critics, and armchair quarterbacks play. They are not mired in the detritus of sorting through the years of successes and failures.
I do wonder sometimes if they’ve forgotten the differences between passing judgment and actually envisioning, designing, building, and producing that which they judge.
