maybe a tad like some Crossfire models also... there are only so many
ways you can trim out a conventional heat sink design like that.

JD

Captain Howdy wrote:

John, I know their not a clone, I just wanted to hear your 2 cents. But they
do look like the older Apline V12's.


In article , John Durbin
wrote:


What the hell would we want to do that for? Product cloning is for
pussies, and we were shipping the Directed amps before we even bought
ADST. At least, the PCB designs - the mechanical design changed in 2002
at CES which was a month and half after the acquisition. But I'm not
offended, it's a very common misconception. I am however thinking you
haven't ever looked very close at any PCB's for the three brands in
question.

Actually, if you want to know the real story, we paid a top industrial
designer for both the Directed and the Viper amps mechanicals that
year... but Viper was having its big launch so we intentionally dialed
back the Directed to a more conservative look so Viper would be the
attention-getter.

JD

Captain Howdy wrote:



I can see spending more time in the insides the outsides, fitting an Orion or
PPI mainboard into an Alpine case is not an easy task.

In article , John Durbin
wrote:




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could have something to do with us having spent more on the insides than
the outsides, too...

JD
or not

Paul Vina wrote: