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Posted by Steve O (A) on August 29, 2005 at 21:04:20

In Reply to: What the heck did you do? posted by Tromatic on August 29, 2005 at 20:16:02:

...some of the the history still remains.

In a nutshell: Doug and Mike Lefevre (Magnequest) went at it publicly over Doug's reverse engineering and reproduction of vintage Dyna and Peerless iron for which Mike owns the engrg drawings. As I understand the situation, the actual designs themselves are long in the public domain. However, as Guido the pimp stated in a famous film "...(one) shouldn't #$%& with a man's livelihood."

Doug also participated in heated technical discourse regarding the A-A load of of a class A PP output stage and what each tube of the pair actually saw. In this case it appears that Mike's understanding of the technicalities involved was incomplete. Unfortunately, the nastiness that evolved prevented any minds from being changed and there was no face saving way out for either Mike or Doug (IMO of course).

In the end, I suspect the general disruptive nature of the discussions and possibly the potential legal and financial liabilities were too great for the bored to allow the situation to continue. Someone had to go and the rest is history.

If you enjoy Doug’s discussions he can sometimes be found on the Audio Round Table forum under the moniker “tnuctipun” or something like that. Check the “Group Build” forum but watch out for rampant sycophantism.

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