--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
> From: "Rich Peet" <>
> >
>
> > Do I think I can make a better dish than the telinga? Yes.
> >
> > Going off the deep end. Do I think that I can build a better
recorder
> > than the Nagra or the Deva? YES, YES, YES.
>
> Without commenting on your abilities to build such things, there is
a
> lot more to a commercial product than just building it.
Thank you since we have yet to meet. But stop in if you are in the
neighborhood. My degree is in Business and Biology. My experience
includes both electronics and metal working. For more than 5 years
now I have maintained my life style working 10 months out of the
year. This year was harder and I missed my timing to have the spring
off to record.
>
> Could you build such things in a way that would turn a profit for
your
> company? That's what a commercial product has to do. The marketing,
the
> fit and finish of the product can easily be far more important than
it's
> function to how well it sells. It also means supporting your
customers
> after the sale and so on. It means in most cases competing with
other
> companies. It means having long range product plans to insure your
> company has a future. This does result in design compromises.
My company has always been me. I fill a need and a market is found.
>
> Yes, I'm sure it's possible to build custom, one off products that
will
> beat mass produced commercial products in at least some ways.
Building a
> product that will win in the sales arena is not near so certain.
The recorder I am building is not that hard anymore. It would not be
legal to sell as our government has limited even the freedom of
construction of electronic appliances.
The hole is still there for working with computer equipment and
individual component purchasing for the a/d's, preamps, computer
interfaces, and waterproof case connectors. So the only "real
construction" will be in case design and layout.
I don't plan on beating some of the field recorder specs. I plan on
beating them all. Using Audition as the software engine gives me a
lot more features. The things lacking are pre-record buffer, auto
file creation over 2 gig per channel, a headphone matrix, vox
and .bwf, and bypass of temp files. By use of more than one set of
software programs and construction of a simple headphone amp I can
over come these as well but for some it will be more field time to
determine if it can be overcome beyond 2 channel use for these
options. I will wing it.
This option is still not cheap. I am budgeted for $3,000 to build 8
channels of very clean 24/96, this includes 8 mkh low noise mics,
full edit, mix and dislay capabilities. Current math looks like
about 12 watt power consumption without the vid display on, or the
refrigeration/heater section on. solar power makeup revised to 2.5
watts max to fit on the back of the flipup vid display. Pretty nifty
vaporware aye?
I am always resistant to the concept that something can't be done. I
am oot (out of town) as soon as it stops snowing. Off to build my
years business plan and find that Dipper that most say does not
exsist here.
Rich
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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