I LOVE Thai food. But my body hates soy, which has cut my cuisine choices of what I like in half or better. If I were in Thailand, well, it'd be almost 0.
Everything else you're talking about is just going to get deleted. But I will say I'm not for a majority rule in a place as big as the US. I want the ability to join up with other people in areas where we can set our own mutual pace instead of wanting to flee the country. And I'm going to at least feel that way until every McDonalds disappears or becomes as ethical as an independent organic farmer - among many other things.
Generations do things differently. And values shift. Take a look at all the new furniture/installed furnishing things as one small example. Maybe as low as literal 0 millennials can produce furniture as well as many makers from previous generations, and yet people are eating up new things. You still sit on most of it. One of the most key factors is communication. It's easier for me to appeal to someone my age than for you. So the product in some ways become irrelevant because the way it appears and is communicated about is generational. This is such a strong thing that for the simple fact that a product may not have been heard of, despite being utterly superior, people go to the new one that have heard about. Why do they hear about it? Lots of reasons, social media outreach is one but a really big one is people want to celebrate young people taking on business, making something. They want to believe elder generations had enough impact that the young can establish products.
While I understand the concern that so few people can afford uber audio (so called) products, the reality is most people wouldn't buy any of it if they could. You either are willing to spend a big portion of income on it or you are not. The people that are, do what they can. They play around with cheaper stuff that is actually very good today. The problem for them is the companies are less established typically, and may never be. There are some boundaries that you can't fully escape without a bit more $, but there is the DIY option. I have come to not care about this aspect because I cannot single handedly change the economics (people dug their own can't afford audio holes over the decades). If I end up some day employing people with real adult wages, that'll be well enough on it's own.
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Ahh, the sound of Autumn, I'll look forward to it as we now enter the season of Strimmer
BTW happiness is a 3 year old with a new slide.
Thinking about outsourcing vs in house been trying to do a straw poll on UK audio companies that have both failed and survived vs their view on design and manufacture and I reckon its about 50/50. Meridian for example Bob used to design pretty much everything. PCBs were contract made, but final assembly and test were all in house.
Music Fidelity is the other extreme and have no real corporate design DNA.
But what they both do have in common is understanding that the industrial design matters in creating the sizzle.
But all in all I can't immediately see any statistics that fit Richard's rule on how to run a company. At least for the volumes in specialist audio.
Thinking about outsourcing vs in house been trying to do a straw poll on UK audio companies that have both failed and survived vs their view on design and manufacture and I reckon its about 50/50. Meridian for example Bob used to design pretty much everything. PCBs were contract made, but final assembly and test were all in house.
Music Fidelity is the other extreme and have no real corporate design DNA.
But what they both do have in common is understanding that the industrial design matters in creating the sizzle.
But all in all I can't immediately see any statistics that fit Richard's rule on how to run a company. At least for the volumes in specialist audio.
I don't pretend to appreciate the business side of a small audio firm targeted at end users, but I'd err on the side of having industrial design in house and leave the electronics to outside sources. What truly new IP is anyone in that part of audio making? People making new chips, new iterations of drivers, sure, but those are for in-house use or as a specialty supplier. Otherwise you get to work with the parts the big electronics players say you get work with and iterate off circuits long since elucidated.
The r&d center I work for is trying to farm out what we must in order to develop our IP, but we're doing well to bring a lot in house.
The r&d center I work for is trying to farm out what we must in order to develop our IP, but we're doing well to bring a lot in house.
Pieter, I am really not sure what has caused you to have such a bad day, but there are 307,909 threads on this site. This is just one of them, and a unique one which is understood meanders around the place. Suggest you worry about some of the other 307,908 where I am sure you will find one that doesn't get you upset.
If you don't like a thread why even read it let alone post negative things in it?
If you don't like a thread why even read it let alone post negative things in it?
Dan,
Yeah, odd that it's usually the other way around. I think it's because, at least in the UK it was a done thing to leave uni and setup a hifi company instead of getting a real job (or in one case I know of quitting a PhD as too much like hard work).
The odd one out in UK was meridian as that was a partnership between and industrial designer (boothroyd) and and electronics guy (stewart). They produced some hat stand stuff early on, like the modular preamp.
There were of course some car crashes when industrial design came first. Tag Maclaren audio springs to mind.
Edit: This is why sometimes you need someone to control the creatives Opera Only
Trying to remember a really odd early 80s design with silly shape and sliders rather than pots. ISTR that didn't survive long.
Yeah, odd that it's usually the other way around. I think it's because, at least in the UK it was a done thing to leave uni and setup a hifi company instead of getting a real job (or in one case I know of quitting a PhD as too much like hard work).
The odd one out in UK was meridian as that was a partnership between and industrial designer (boothroyd) and and electronics guy (stewart). They produced some hat stand stuff early on, like the modular preamp.
There were of course some car crashes when industrial design came first. Tag Maclaren audio springs to mind.
Edit: This is why sometimes you need someone to control the creatives Opera Only
Trying to remember a really odd early 80s design with silly shape and sliders rather than pots. ISTR that didn't survive long.
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yes, I was waiting and knew that Scott's leading question about why would I want to live in Thailand was a set up but a few people got to read my answere before the axe fell.
As for soy, there really isnt a lot of it used in Thailand. I eat everywhere there and they have a huge variety. very little of it contains any soy.
The neighborhood I live in is largely Japanese and there is more soy around there as the foods are prepared for the Japanese.
Being an international city, Bangkok, has food from diverse cultures so you can have anything you want there.
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I remembered it was Lecson
History | lecsonaudio.com
Interesting history. Would appear not to have been Bob Stewarts best design...
History | lecsonaudio.com
Interesting history. Would appear not to have been Bob Stewarts best design...
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Richard: Just as bad here. I have a Canadian girl on my team. Her brother is a Major in the british army. She did 2 degrees in UK, but because she spent one year abroad on her studies (arabic) that reset her residency counter, so she is still having to apply for Visa extensions. My employer is Canadian.
FWIW If I could afford it a small house on the Russian River would do me nicely. I could make a little slice of paradise right there.
FWIW If I could afford it a small house on the Russian River would do me nicely. I could make a little slice of paradise right there.
Russian river wine. hmmm. Very remote. Sarada will get a visa to study soon just not in USA any time soon. Then I'll hire her after her EE degree to work in Thailand. Central to all growth regions for future.
Which brings us back to high-end audio and HiPo audio designs and systems. Even accurate ones, too.
Oh. BTW..... I have an old console radio to fix (with electro-magnet) ... who sells NOS tubes any more?
THx-Richard
Which brings us back to high-end audio and HiPo audio designs and systems. Even accurate ones, too.
Oh. BTW..... I have an old console radio to fix (with electro-magnet) ... who sells NOS tubes any more?
THx-Richard
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MBAs recognize that newly minted engineers just out of college are more up to date with the latest technology. As they cost less than older engineers it is a clear no brainer to as legally as possible get rid of the old ones.
It is the same up to date bit as to why they like to make newly minted MBAs their chief executive and all the other important positions. Or maybe that logic doesn't hold. Experience good in management but not engineering?
It is the same up to date bit as to why they like to make newly minted MBAs their chief executive and all the other important positions.
Or maybe that logic doesn't hold. Experience good in management but not engineering?
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My apologies, I should have known better there is no aspect of these issues that can (or should) be discussed here. I hope you understand the full meaning of that.
Wouldn't be the first time I didn't know what you were thinking inside your head that seemed obvious to you could be interpreted as having only one meaning.
Hi Richard,
Antique Electronic Supply, Antique Electronic Supply. They also sell new twistloc capacitors, multisection too. I've used them and they are good.
-Chris
Antique Electronic Supply, Antique Electronic Supply. They also sell new twistloc capacitors, multisection too. I've used them and they are good.
-Chris
I was not talking to you, think hard and you might understand. There is nothing I could say in response that would pass moderation.
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