[Bret L]

All amps should be todler proof all the time. If an amp cannot be
turned on/off often for a long period it has been poorly designed.

That's right, and you know, that Andy Warhol soup can painting that
sold in New York awhile ago did not look as good as the one I painted
in high school. I should buy it and rework it for improved appearance,
then resell it. I should make a good profit that way, right?

I don't see what Andy had to offer the world. I wouldn't care what you
did with all of his awful artworks.

But there's only one AW painting. If there were dozens or hundreds of
them all the same, then sure, maybe you'd improve the painting value
by 10c.

Clearly you have no idea about the utter ****ing bull**** goings on in
the art world.
Big stoopid money, all ****ing crap mainly, and you can't eat art.

So why don't you paint something and take to the gallery and see if
they'll hang it beside AWs crap?

All would become clear to you in the following 30 minutes.



When one buys a product from a modern high end audio company, they
are buying a certain vision of how things are supposed to be.

Except they miss the very target they are aiming for so damn often,
and after setting out to make the perfect dog, they end up with a
piebald camel.

radically more cost effective to build from scratch than to modify
most of these products, especially because the kind of mods you
describe render the product unresaleable.

I don't care about resale values. The guy here who had me alter his CJ
bought it on E-bay for $150.
It is just old junk.

To buy something that does what the altered amp does but new, and from
CJ, maybe he pays $7,000.
But I cost him $500, cheap!


You're willfully intransigent.

If you put your time and energy into production and made your own
product under your own name and leveraged other people's work to make
a profit you'd make a lot of money. As it is you'll die just over
broke. Most of what you build or modify will be chucked as not having
any resale value in a few years.

I have a truck that is what is called a "Carolina Hauler". It's a
pickup that has been reworked to tow a race car trailer on highway
that should by rights have had a Class 8 road tractor pulling it. It
was built at a cost of over thirty thousand US dollars in 1980, when
that sum would nearly have bought a new Ferrari. It has basically the
driveline of a schoolbus and a reinforced frame and (before I took it
off) an alternator capable of running a fair sized house. I bought it
for fifteen hundred bucks in good running shape as no one wanted it.
It has no value. It's an oddly modified old Dodge. Mileage sucks, but
I never drive it very far, it's my bad weather beater.

If I keel over dead tomorrow, it'll go to the crusher once it quits
running for its new owner. Everything on it is non stock. I have "the
book" containing most of the part numbers needed to maintain it, but
most of the people who are buyers for old pickups around here are
illiterate, whether they are American hicks or mestizos who speak a
bad flavor of Spanish but are not so good at reading it even if the
book were in it. It's an interesting piece of circle track racing
history but not worth anything. So it lives for awhile as my beater
truck.

If you had simply refused to work on the new Quad amp and told the
owner you could sell him a new amp cheaper which was better you both
would have been ahead. As it is he has a lump worth nothing and no
dealer will take it on trade.

For what it is worth, the problem with American car makers is not
that they did not change, but that they did. Americans still want big
comfortable cars, but EPA and fuel mileage laws dictate that they can
not make them. So the wealthy buy big Benzes and BMWs and the less
fortunate get a ****box like it or not. Under the bull**** ageis of
global warming, which is horse****, and oil shortages, more and more
of these laws are going in effect.

If people could buy a brand new 1968 Buick Electra 225 today over
these econo****s they would. i certainly would. **** these
environmentalist socialist cocksuckers.