Bl**dy antisocial but I love mine
I had a psir of Stax with tube amp as a loner for 6 months. Awesome.
Strength, Mr Russell.
Seen how much torsion/twisting an airplane wing does during flight ?
(billet surface milling is becoming outdated, composites and caf/acf instead)
Actually he is partly right and I was being a little OTT. Airbus Starts A380 Wing Production At Broughton, UK | Aero-News Network The whole wing structure is not one billet, but several. Still bastrad impressive.
They each have their use.
MuMetal has a much higher permeability than steel, but it saturates sooner than steel, so it may not be practical at high levels. Steel can take a lot more before it saturates but its permeability isn't as high making it less effective at magnetic shielding. Though you can use the two together, using steel on the interference side to help knock the level down to a level that the MuMetal can handle.
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Saw a trade film of the creation of Concord...the whole fuselage was hogged out of solid titanium...IIRC.
Can cause real problems in isolated farming communities........we have a few such people appearing in the local court-rooms every year!
Sure, but you're not guaranteed those volumes starting out.
Have you listened to the current versions across all of the models?
But equity is something that it built. It's not something you're guaranteed from the start.
Much the same can be said of older males in a different market, where they are known to spend massive sums of money on that which technically, is garbage.
And that's different from "high end" audio how exactly?
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We're talking about shielding against magnetic fields. And absorption loss is the primary mechanism here. That's really the only way materials like copper can provide any real shielding at all of magnetic fields. It is the absorption loss due to skin effect that copper can be effective at higher frequencies.
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Yeah. When I first flew as a teenager, that freaked me out. Thought the wing was just going to break off and we were all going to die.
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Aluminium, but no idea of the grade, nor the heat treatment.
They bent it to the curve of the fuselage after milling out.
Titanium is usually only used for the leading edges, not for the entire wing surface. It is very hard to machine and form, we used titanium for the leading edges of most rotor blades for helicopters. Much of the machining of titanium was actually done with surface grinders, it was not a nice thing to have to do and forming those machined surfaces was another issue without cracking the material.
ps. The common tolerance on those parts was to +/- 0.0002"
ps. The common tolerance on those parts was to +/- 0.0002"
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That is an estimate but way off. And estimates like those have bankrupted several headphone startups. Its true, you can get some knock-offs for those prices but they will have a lot of problems that will bite when you are doing large volume.
If I did a similar BOM estimate for the cost of a Blowtorch I would come up with maybe $100 for the BOM. As you know not all resistors and transistors are interchangeable.
Many of the parts prices are way off. I'm not sure (no link) which headphone this is a breakdown of (most likely the solo) but even the cheapest Beats costs significantly more for the parts. They are all done "open BOM" plus a standard multiplier for profit so there is not much room for price fudging at the vendor. I don't think the largest volume products would not have really sharp purchasing/supply chain people involved and the negotiations are brutal.
Don't always trust the internet.
Going along with what Demian was just saying if you have ever worked with injection molds you would understand that the costs are much more involved than it seems. Finding someone who can actually build the tooling, vetting those vendors, first article parts and qualification don't come for free. By the time you have completed tooling before any production you have sunk a large amount of money just to get a first article part. If you have a successful product then the final amortized costs may be low on a high volume production item but there are never any guarantees going in. When you just look at the final manufacturing costs there are so many other cost factors to consider that the common thinking is just very short sighted. If it was only that easy and cheap there would be lots more competition in many things we purchase, try it sometime, some of us know better what is truly involved in starting a new project for a new product.
In Johns defense you also have to consider that his high end products are very limited in quantities and that is going to make the effort to produce a product that much harder. Selling a commercial product is so disconnected from a diy project, the comparisons are just not fair.
In Johns defense you also have to consider that his high end products are very limited in quantities and that is going to make the effort to produce a product that much harder. Selling a commercial product is so disconnected from a diy project, the comparisons are just not fair.
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