Man, I would love to be a fly on the wall with you two in the same room!

Charlie, I usually agree with your technical approach as I tend to think that way myself.

However, to play Devil's Advocate, I also agree that sometimes simply hearing (or seeing )seeing something perform you can sometimes find something unexpected. A perfect example of this is the good old Outlaw 1050. Its performance is routinely observed as outdoing its specs on paper. Whether it's truly outperfoming its stated parameters is not really relevant. What is important is that its perceived performance is (typically) grander than what one is led to believe simply by reading the numbers.

Anyway, as always, I enjoy reading your guys' posts. Since you both seem to come at things from different perspectives, a pretty balanced discussion (including both technical and practical) usually ensues and a lot of good information is disclosed. It gives others of us something to ponder and investigate further on our own, if we're so inclined.

Keep it up, guys!