> Thanks for the reply, Bob.
> I guess you are saying that it is up to the actual user of the components to
> measure their characteristics. For me, there is only one problem with this,
> I am at this point only an electronics hobbist. I am studying to become an
> electrical engineer. I don't have the money to buy the test equipment needed

NO. By using apropiate design you can make the circuit
quite independant of transistor characteristics.

The only really important things is dissipation, minimum
gain and frequency (The last being almost neglible in audio
these days). Feedback can take care of *almost* everything else.

Nic