You keep wanting to engage me in a dialogue and further interaction with you. Of which I have no interest due to your behaviour. I don't care to discuss this with you publicly... as my hunch is that you thrive on the attention and being in the limelight. And that your most fervent desire is to engage me in your little world.

Many moons ago when you asked me to alter the original design of the S-265 to accomadate several intermittment taps on the primary... I carefully and fully explained to you why I would not do that on this particular design... again... to be clear... I am not stating this for further debate or to enjoin myself in a dialogue with you. As the owner of the design and the owner of Peerless... that's a decision I am entitled to make and it is of utmost import to me to retain the performance integrity of the original design. I actually consider it a duty.

Further, I have no obligation to explain to you our "philosophy" on design, winding, or building of transformers. Hence, I will pass on the bait regarding tear downs, reverse engineering, original blueprints, etc.

I will say this... you seem to have this viewpoint that if you acquire a product as a consumer that you have purchased the design rights to that design. And I could not disagree with you more.

Purchasing a pair of Pi Speakers is not a licence for you to reverse egineer the products, tear it down for duplication or anything like this (in my opinion). If you were to pay for all the engineering and the rights to use that proprietary engineering I am certain the price would be much greater than the retail price for a single pair of speakers. To purchase a pair of speakers, again in my opinion, with the sole intent of copying them, reverse engineering them and then wanting to compete with the designer\builder of that pair of speakers is nothing short of theft from my vantage point.

The speaker designer may have invested hundreds if not thousands of hours in the development and engineering of that product. Your buying one pair as a shortcut to doing your own development and your own engineering is, again, in my view, highly unethical.

Same goes for and applies even if (used only as an example) the owner of Pi Speakers had purchased the entire design from another company.
Still, they are paying for the engineering and the development of the product and selling you a pair of speakers for you to use and enjoy... not for you to copy their work and then go into competition against them.

end of my rant...

again... your free to respond to my comments above and I am sure you will. But you can also be sure that try as you might... you will not drag me into a great debate about these issues with you.

For the record... we do build the Peerless S-265 transformer with great fidelity to the original blueprints. So this is not a dusty old transformer design that had been "abandoned" or whose design has been put in the public domain. And we have no intentions of doing such at this time.

I believe that I have addressed all the issues that I care to with you.

msl