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Why are vacuum tubes still used in audio amplifiers instead ofsolid-state transistor
On 05/13/11 02:06, Patrick Turner so wittily quipped:
On May 13, 1:01 pm, wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:35:40 -0700, Big Bad Bob wrote: On 05/08/11 20:48, flipper so wittily quipped: I can then compete with the crap products by offering real performance. Until such time as you build and sell 'real performance' for the same or less price as the alleged 'crap' you're just an elitist curmudgeon. there may be a way to build the 'real performance' stuff AND compete with the 'crap products', Maybe or maybe not but that isn't the point. The point is Patrick doesn't have a clue how to design and manufacture a product for the mass market. Patrick has a very clear idea about how to design and manufacture a product for the mass market. excellent! But he doesn't want to, because he sees it is an excellent recipe for him to lose all his possessions and become a bankrupt. all things worth doing involve risk. corporations help minimize that. You become a corporate officer and stock holder. If your stock suddenly becomes worthless, that's all you lose (the value of the stock). You might have to get another job afterwards, but that's pretty much the end of it. He'd have to get venture capital, and remove the quality like the others do to compete I earlier suggested that quality doesn't have to compromise, and gave some examples on how to do it while still keeping costs down. and investors won't invest unless you give them everything you have in case you go broke well, if they own stock they each get a portion of the liquidation dollars (or 'sell the company' dollars) according to their shares, but yeah that's kind of how it works when they buy up part of the company and put money in to keep it running. and the history of tube amp makers shows so many manufacturer wannabes have gone broke. it is the same for most businesses. venture capital is high risk. I think 1 out of 3 actually "make it" to the point of profitability where the VCs get a return on their investment. The return potential is so high, though, that they continue to invest and make a profit. Patrick is aware Chinese labour costs are 64c per hour or therabouts, and he knows he'd have to get stuff made in China to compete. my suggestions is 'certain assemblies' but not "the whole kit & kaboodle" Patrick is sensible, and knows the risks, and is also 64, and he doesn't plan to dive into terribly risky ventures producing niche retro mass made with serious entreprenurial schemes using his own money; I'll accept that. (shooting others' attempts down, though, doesn't cut it with me - I've seen and been around too many people who are like that, always telling you why it CAN'T be done, etc.) one must use only other people's money unless you have your own capital available and be 30 with nothing to lose, so the hard work of making things happen can be done. Age is irrelevant (think young, be young). The 'nothing to lose' part is never applicable anyway (there is ALWAYS something to lose). No need to ever 'retire' in my book, so I'll go on tossing about ideas about starting businesses indefinitely, WAY past the age of 64, and maybe even do it (again) once or twice. I figure I'll work until I'm dead (I know this guy that's over 70, climbed Mt. Whitney a few years ago, and still works as a senior EE, though he admitted it was a 'cushy' job) or until I earn the classic 'F.U.' money (where you have SO much money you can tell the world 'F.U.'). then with 'F.U.' money I could run a business at a loss just for fun. |
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