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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:
My question to inmates concerns where you personally feel the line is crossed, from simply building a better mouse trap on the one hand, to being culpable for blatantly ripping off another design on the other hand, repackaging it, selling it for half or less and abusing the other guy's R&D efforts, marketing campaign and inbuilt desire-factor established by reviews and tradeshows.What R&D efforts?
The Gaincard basically comes right out of the data sheet for the LM-3875, the power opamp used in the Gaincard:
I mean, how many ways can you wire up an attenuator and a power opamp?
In terms of R&D, I see nothing terribly remarkable about the Gaincard. About the only thing I find remarkable about the Gaincard is that someone had the balls to take a $2.50 monolithic power opamp, some equally inexpensive parts (i.e. stamped metal RCA jacks, etc.), stuff them into a reasonably nice case, wrap it up in some eastern philosophy doubletalk, slap a $3,300 pricetag on it ($5,100 if you wanted a dual mono power supply), and managed to win over those who preached a conventional wisdom which insisted that something like the Gaincard would have to sound like absolute garbage.
I do however admire Kimura for thumbing his nose at the prevailing conventional wisdom.
As for the cosmetics, yes, Peter's enclosure bears a somewhat striking resemblence to the Gaincard's enclosure. But then those Power Humptys and Dumptys bear a somewhat striking resemblence to the Musical Fidelity X series enclosures.
Personally I don't see that there's anything controversial here at all.
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- Re: When does a better mouse trap turn distasteful carboncopy cloning? - Steve Eddy 11:59:00 07/08/03 (0)
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