There were, once. Bulova and Gruen for example. The later founded by a German immigrant. Intel and Texas Instrument once made watches but that was a flop. These days they may be disgned here, Tiffany for example, but built elsewhere in a small country called Switzerland. Then there are "sorts watches like the one I'm wearing that is good for 100 meters of sea water that say "Designed in California" and "Made in Japan"
My other wtch says "Skagen, Denmark" on the outside and "Japan" on the inside.
If my choices in audio were limited to the visual I would be torn between B&O on one hand or a bank of red hot glowing tubes on the other. Probably pick the tubes some tube equipment is so totally Buck Rogers.
Commercial high-end designers often present some gwdawful expense chunk of carved aluminum as a "statement piece". If and when I ever concoct a DIY amp that I think is the best I can do performance wise I'm going to go to a military surplus store. There I'll buy the two ugliest, beat up 20mm ammo boxes I can find to use as enclosres . That will be my "statement".
My other wtch says "Skagen, Denmark" on the outside and "Japan" on the inside.
If my choices in audio were limited to the visual I would be torn between B&O on one hand or a bank of red hot glowing tubes on the other. Probably pick the tubes some tube equipment is so totally Buck Rogers.
Commercial high-end designers often present some gwdawful expense chunk of carved aluminum as a "statement piece". If and when I ever concoct a DIY amp that I think is the best I can do performance wise I'm going to go to a military surplus store. There I'll buy the two ugliest, beat up 20mm ammo boxes I can find to use as enclosres . That will be my "statement".
Way off topic, but go w/ the flow...
http://www.timexpo.com/timeline7.html
By the turn of the twentieth century, the watch industry's first and most successful mass marketer, Robert H. Ingersoll, worked with Waterbury Clock to distribute the company's "Yankee" pocket watch, the first to cost just one dollar. Twenty years later, with nearly forty million sold, the "Yankee" became the world's largest seller and "the watch that made the dollar famous." Everyone carried the Yankee: from Mark Twain to miners, from farmers to factory workers, from office clerks to sales clerks
THe company was later known as:
http://www.timexpo.com/timeline7.html
By the turn of the twentieth century, the watch industry's first and most successful mass marketer, Robert H. Ingersoll, worked with Waterbury Clock to distribute the company's "Yankee" pocket watch, the first to cost just one dollar. Twenty years later, with nearly forty million sold, the "Yankee" became the world's largest seller and "the watch that made the dollar famous." Everyone carried the Yankee: from Mark Twain to miners, from farmers to factory workers, from office clerks to sales clerks
THe company was later known as:
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look at this "high end" crap
http://www.walkeraudio.com/vivid_cd_and_dvd_enhancer.htm
look at this "high end" crap
http://www.walkeraudio.com/vivid_cd_and_dvd_enhancer.htm
Hmm, like this more: http://www.walkeraudio.com/velocitor.htm.
Also more bucks to spend. For $3650.00 you'll get:
“In the Velocitor, we incorporate nothing in the power path to alter the power supplied. There is no on/off switch, L.E.D.s, fuses, surge suppressors, transformers, chokes, filters, bells, or whistles. Just your music - at its best.”
Also more bucks to spend. For $3650.00 you'll get:
“In the Velocitor, we incorporate nothing in the power path to alter the power supplied. There is no on/off switch, L.E.D.s, fuses, surge suppressors, transformers, chokes, filters, bells, or whistles. Just your music - at its best.”
"There is no on/off switch, L.E.D.s, fuses, surge suppressors, transformers, chokes, filters, bells, or whistles"-there is nothing that costs 3650$ , now thats hi end !
i saw some thread where people talked about painting cd's and freezing them 🙄 these made them sound better 😱
i saw some thread where people talked about painting cd's and freezing them 🙄 these made them sound better 😱
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