"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:

"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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Computers aren't rocket science, you know.

Well, building and repairing PCs isn't rocket science. The underlying
technology is exactly rocket science. It just that it's to the point
where it is packaged this well...

Perhaps that's the difference. I also grew up when you had to make
your computer out of a kit. I remember aligning floppy drives
manually and soldering new caps onto a board as normal repairs.

Now, it's all replace and forget.

Right, when floppy drives wholesaled for $300 you had one *world* and when
they wholesale for $6 you have another.

Nice, actually, due to the cost and
time savings, but the newer people in the field don't know how to do
the technical stuff when they have to.

What changed is the level of underlying complexity.

Unfortunately, acoustics requires either:

1: technical knowledge that nobody on this group possesses.
Engineering and physics degrees and such.

In its former incarnation the group had people who were clearly
well-qualified speaker designers, people like Kantor, Dunlavy etc.

http://www.google.com/groups?selm=92...ws1.frmt 1.sf
ba.home.com

http://www.google.com/groups?&selm=%...b.prod2. comp
userve.com


These are the people who build concert halls and do the real speaker and
electronics design.
They can make a deign from scratch and it works perfectly the first time,
every time.

Nope. There's still a lot of tweaking by instrument and ear of initial
loudspeaker designs, and perfection in speakers is still elusive.

2:Testing and trail and error based upon rough extimates. That's the
rest of us.

Speak for yourself!

Build acoustic chambers, test designs, tweak with the
cabinets, and so on.

That still happens, regardless of the skill that goes into the initial
design.

Even the big companies do this in-house, as
the number of people who are truly in the #1 category are probably
less than a couple dozen in the entire world.

They number exactly zero.

Tend of thousands think and wish they were, though.

The unwashed do it all, sometimes for months and years, and still end up
with substandard results.

I have no doubt that
Arny does a decent job at fixing computers. He seems to be
making a profit off of it, which is always the acid-test for
service-oriented businesses.

My business has always been profitable, but it's been a lot of hard
work with a mediocre return on effort and investment.

But thanks for trying to straighten sockpuppet Yustabe out. Mission
Impossible.

I wonder what Greg's customer referral rate will be? Lol.

When I made my "stick a fork in it" comment early last month I was totally
serious. Everything that's happened since then was just the denouement.

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