From a few of them:
threatened to drive one of our sponsors out of business

gave vendor enough grief to make that vendor redirect energy to him than the tasks at hand serving the audiophile community

***this was one of my favs, but I'm sure that what ever 'grief' I dispensed was required at the time. As far as 'serving the audiophile community' goes, as a memeber of that community, I don't remember being served at all, let alone poorly.

Either way, I am going to continue with building myself better audio. Anybody who wants to come along is quite welcome.
cheers,
Douglas

Riddle me this, why are we so concerned with grid choke/center tapped choke inductance and what happens when a signal drives the grid positive but yet IT coupling is advised for these same tubes that need a low value grid leak resistor....and they sometimes are operated in clas A2.

Russ

The grid choke is cap coupled. If there's DC out, there has to be DC in. The IT can take DC in, albiet at a different load line slope. The cap interferes with this, no?
cheers,
Douglas

Well, for my part I have perhaps not been peaceful enough. While I have limited ability to act on the 'turn the other cheek' impulse, it is a reasonable reaction to such situations.

I watched some historical footage of Ghandi in action, and was inspired. So, to the Ocean, I am going to make some salt.
cheers,
Douglas

you wrote:

:::...understand how a hunk of iron wrapped in wire and insulation merrits any protection anyway. Yeah; maybe the first guy who thought of building one should reap some reward, but after that; it belongs to the world.::::

would the same logic apply to all speaker designs, amplifier designs, digital designs, etc?

So... anyone should be able to come on an ART forum and offer clones (explicit copies) of say Norman Tracy's digital designs? Or offer hotrod copies of say a Wavelength Audio Brick? And use these guys names and reputations to sell their fakes?

Do you think the forums should be opened up to explicit copies of PI speaker designs? And allow the cloner to use the PI namesake and goodwill to "market" their clones?

would love to see someone take the BOSE or MONSTER CABLE challenge...

msl

There are lots of neat ideas which were not given protection. For example, the snowmobile track drive system. Too many people were playing with it. Parallel discoveries would have been made and some inventor in Colorado could arrive at the same sol'n as a sled man in New Mexico.

As suggested by some poster below, change one resistor, and I can call it mine...or something like that. Or another neat attempt at humor, grabbing the Guinevere schematic for his own profit. Let me suggest a few improvements...they've already been discussed on GB. That pre would make some nice competition for the established budget kit sellers I would hope.

When the best Physicists were gathered together in 'the institute for advanced study' or similar, no more discoveries were made. The difference? too much free time? too old? you'll love this....no students! take away interaction and spread of knowlege, and advancement ceases.

So spread it around as widely and thoroughly as is possible. Play with it, modify it, take it apart and put it back together. Teach somebody else to do the same and the Art will advance.

I would rather see Audio advance in such a fashion, rather than in a Middle Ages Church setting where the Priesthood is in control over a large fraction of the available information, which is hoarded as a mizer his coins. No joy there, that's for sure.
cheers,
Douglas