Well, if you re-read that thread carefully you'll understand that I had to repeat myself constantly in an attempt to correct countless and repeated misunderstandings and I had to sit there and grin while I was being rudely mocked continuously. You better bet I stormed outta there.
Being misunderstood is my super power on this forum, and in life really. But it's particularly bad on this forum, I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.
Um, the only emotion I ever put into my posts is when I'm responding to people who are being a**holes, and even then most of the time I just grin and take it.
The one major issue I have with the people on this forum is the endless amount of emotion and ego. It gets in the way of practical progress and is so frustrating.
I just want to solve problems and learn. Not argue about who's right and wrong or whatever. I don't have an ego, I don't care who's right or wrong. I just want to discuss information and improve the technology.
I crave criticism, just not when people are being unhelpful jerks or continuously ignoring my words and making presumptuous accusations.
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Learn the word PRAGMATISM or you will always fall over.
(which also means someone has probably done what you are doing before, but you don't know about it)
Re-read what you just wrote, and (if you can) imagine how embarrassed you might be in 1,2 or even 5 years to read what google has archived about you in the wayback machine...
Customers will find this stuff even if you forgot you wrote it....
Ie. before you write something (emotional whether you see it or not) put your brain in gear before your fingers hit the keyboard.
Nobody knows behind that screen there is a dog.
(written by someone, who deliberately manipulates forums in the past, to elicit reactions + select out & get shot of / find only customers I want to work with.)
We may prove the internet does not exist at all.
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Hmm. Sharing contextual information doesn't seem like something to be embarrassed about. If that's the way people see it then that's a them problem. I don't like being fake, It disgusts me. You can't please everyone.
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Everyone seems to have overlooked the headphones ... They seem eminently marketable especially if you have a working prototype and it outperforms HD800s (which cost over $1000). Why not start there and use the money to fund your other inventions?
I dunno, I would think a 25W amp with "unmeasurable" distortion that can fit in your hand and costs a hundred or so bucks would also fall into the "eminently marketable" category.
But maybe I'm wrong there. I know the Magni and O2 amps have sold a ton and they literal toys in comparison despite being of similar size and cost.
I would agree that the headphones would be another option to get things kick started but I simply lack the funds to get them beyond an alpha stage of development. It could cost me thousands.
The amp is way further along, I only need one more prototype iteration, still a $700 expense but at least I get two amps for that.
But maybe I'm wrong there. I know the Magni and O2 amps have sold a ton and they literal toys in comparison despite being of similar size and cost.
I would agree that the headphones would be another option to get things kick started but I simply lack the funds to get them beyond an alpha stage of development. It could cost me thousands.
The amp is way further along, I only need one more prototype iteration, still a $700 expense but at least I get two amps for that.
Yes but thinks things through. PLS.
The chances of you selling a low distortion amp these days are just about ZERO.
(I wouldn't buy one, and you are up against the marketing PR monsters out there)...
The chances of selling an improved headphone are HUGE, because the offerings out there are just horrible, and STUDIOS and broadcast radios want them.
(I will buy one in the next 3 months but it will be ESL, as you don't have a product).
I explained this by PM, but you don't seem to have understood. ( yet )
That's really a dumb answer.
You know data mining these days is something totally BANAL.
You can't imagine how easy it is to get IP address info, association between a product and the developer, it gets cloned and built in some back street of Shenzhen...in fact they are probably working on the subject of this thread already and making it work....
How you think the Chinese have already developed something before you can even say "bonjour"?
They also watch forums like this with great interest, because they aren't able to come up with ideas themselves....
Huawei is just the tip of the iceberg..
Time for a little bit of that naivety to vanish down the yellow river, or are you used to seeing the 1USD valves suddenly vanish and reappear in Taiwan or Hong Kong at 15x the price a few months later, then see your product appear on Aliexpress for 10USD by June this year ???
Tubelab will confirm! 😱
Yes but people who want to develop YOUR product (and even steal it) watch what you write, say (OK the geezer hasn't a cent to his name, so we can steal it easy and he hasn't a chance of suing us), so they say he's weak ,- rip him off, and we'll make a fortune.
That's exactly how Zuckerberg did Facebook, and look where his is now..
.. how Microsoft shafted DEC (stole NT, and were half hearted sued for it by a company that was already weakening)....
I had a book stolen, and still struggle to sue for something as internationally simple as copyright....I could go on and on...
In England, they say possession is 90% of the law.
It sure is,- , (IP is almost impossible to protect),
so even IF, big IF, you are quicker to market, someone will always clone something and claim it's their own idea, OR you did nothing original!
Hey wake up!
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They probably can come up with their own ideas, but why bother most of the time?
This all started from the idea that writing anonymous stuff in a forum may affect someone's customers decades later, right?
I shudder to think what your import/export activities have involved, but find this level of paranoia very refreshing 🙂
Is licencing an option? If you were able to create something that wraps all the work and testing you have done into something that can be presented, then maybe one of the mid-size top end hifi companies would licence your ISP?
To do that you have to be able to demonstrate the product, but keep the ISP secret - maybe put a prototype in a sealed box?
If you had a prototype and a portfolio of test results to make your claims justifiable, maybe crowd funding is an option?
It sounded like you had your back up against the wall for some reason, and also like there was a lot of information that you had lost sight of. Can you just regroup, and search for it all, and gather it altogether so that it is presentable?
To do that you have to be able to demonstrate the product, but keep the ISP secret - maybe put a prototype in a sealed box?
If you had a prototype and a portfolio of test results to make your claims justifiable, maybe crowd funding is an option?
It sounded like you had your back up against the wall for some reason, and also like there was a lot of information that you had lost sight of. Can you just regroup, and search for it all, and gather it altogether so that it is presentable?
Real name? As far as I know my real name doesn't exist on the internet. Indeed google turns up nothing.
Well it's a good thing I only posted schems of my throw away designs then isn't it.
Making a presentable piece of equipment has been the core plan all along. It just takes a lot of time and money to get to that point. I'm almost there with my amp, but will be quite some time before I can get back to it again.
Not sure what you mean by "information". If you mean the test results of my amp then those results are irrelevant because if I a take screenshot of my analyzer in loopback mode then that will be the result every time anyway. Anything else is just extrapolative tests.
That's why I need a reputable third party to get involved so I can stop wasting my time.
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Whenever you post a somewhat sensitive schematic online, include some circuitry with a 6BN6 or 6H6 tube or such that looks like it does something, and label it BS control or similar. "Quantization modulator" Maybe the world supply of those tubes will head East with any luck. 😎
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I wouldn't worry too much there.
The PRC, HK and Taiwan, (& now India a late starter) has been so busy of late destroying the mountain of old Soviet NOS 6V6, 807 & the small hi gain "super triodes" they've struggled with the more obscure yankee TV stuff.
Latest in the hyping stakes have been any close relative of the NOS KT66 c/w PRC made "convertor-adaptors"...because GEC OEM ones are already 1000-1500US for a quad, and people have got wise to the PRC clone look alikes and clever fakes.
Basically any new tube amp on Aliexpress or the eletronics web sites is now stacked with soviet made stuff. presumably sent from here, down the trans-siberian from anywhere in Uzbekh, Ukraine, Moldovia, Russia where large stashes of them keep surfacing.
It's no more than 3 days on a train for them, which is why Chinese made IT tuff in Russia is cheaper then anywhere else in the world.
One thing that suprised me in the clothes stores in downtown Bejing was just how many languages they spoke, and especially how many spoke really good Russian for their weekend clients from Moscow.
The PRC, HK and Taiwan, (& now India a late starter) has been so busy of late destroying the mountain of old Soviet NOS 6V6, 807 & the small hi gain "super triodes" they've struggled with the more obscure yankee TV stuff.
Latest in the hyping stakes have been any close relative of the NOS KT66 c/w PRC made "convertor-adaptors"...because GEC OEM ones are already 1000-1500US for a quad, and people have got wise to the PRC clone look alikes and clever fakes.
Basically any new tube amp on Aliexpress or the eletronics web sites is now stacked with soviet made stuff. presumably sent from here, down the trans-siberian from anywhere in Uzbekh, Ukraine, Moldovia, Russia where large stashes of them keep surfacing.
It's no more than 3 days on a train for them, which is why Chinese made IT tuff in Russia is cheaper then anywhere else in the world.
One thing that suprised me in the clothes stores in downtown Bejing was just how many languages they spoke, and especially how many spoke really good Russian for their weekend clients from Moscow.
May I add the in my view most important one, the interaction between the amp and the speaker (especially during the time when things turn around and the speaker becomes the generator)
I think this was tackled in the last thread, and we know how all that ended.
DF is almost totally irrelevant,-once above a certain value which why I didn't mention it.
My own amps were designed to drive shaker tables.
The day I see the speaker shaking my amp, I will start to believe this BS about damping and speaker EMF.
I reckon this so called "interraction" is one of the silliest and most over-rated theories to hit hifi, just like the old TID stuff was 30yrs ago,
..quite apart, from the fact on a good valve amp, the higher impedance end is at very high voltage (650V), and has current aplenty to back it all up.
You do know that a step-down transformer acts quite different from a step up transformer? So much about Df when the speaker is the generator feeding a step up transformer, those really weird phase-relations dont bother you?
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It may be true that the interaction is minimal when the DF is sufficiently high, as it MUST be for a shaker table amp. There is some observable interaction when the DF is in the low single digit range as common in SE tube amps without feedback.
I went too far down this rabbit hole about 15 years ago when I observed that the (properly scaled) voltage on the plate of the output tube does not match the voltage across the speaker at the instant a huge bass drum transient attempts to reverse the cone motion in a 15 inch woofer. The voltage and current at the speaker are nowhere near in phase either.