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In Reply to: When does a better mouse trap turn distasteful carboncopy cloning? posted by Srajan Ebaen (R) on July 8, 2003 at 08:59:14:
I'll chime in my hairsplitting opinion. I bet the team who designed the chip and the schematic knew it was bloody good. The specs are impressive. Any open-mineded audiophile designer worth their salt, seeing such a simple schematic and impressive specs, would be interested in finding out more about it.It took a high-end designer with credulity like Kimura to kiss and bless it and say it was good. Then manufacture it with all the trappings of the esoteric and bring it to market with philosophical overtones. For an unreasonable amount of money.
So how is Kimura to be commended? By finding the readily available circuit? By tweaking this circuit and manufacturing technique to a spiritual high? By discovering something that could bring wonderful high-end sound to a great number of people on a beer budget and instead creating something for many less individuals at the Dom Perignon end of the spectrum?
He doesn't get my respect as a designer or an artist, but maybe as a businessman. Of course, as a busninessman, he may have known that he couldn't patent the product and that copying it was easy. What's the best way to prevent that from impacting your business? By exclusifying it and mystifying your audience. He's done a great job at that, and as a business, is a good move. As an artist - well we're not REALLY talking about art here are we?
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- Re: When does a better mouse trap turn distasteful carboncopy cloning? - Tuckers 07/8/0316:59:49 07/8/03 (0)
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