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From: dcr@cs.brown.edu (Daniel C. Robbins)
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Subject: Design
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Date: 6 Jun 90 12:52:41 GMT
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	Do poeple think there is a market for the following:

A company which makes ultra high end equipment with cases/interfaces
manufactured to the clients specifications.  I am not talking about
just putting components inside of fancy furniture. I see several two
scenarios for this:

1) The client chooses off the shelf components and the design company
repackages the components in custom cabinets.

2) The design company manufactures the entire component from board to
box

	The advantages for the client are:
1) you get components which look the way you want with the sound you
want.  Have you ever wished one component you bought (for its better
sound) looked like another component?

2) you get an interface to your own specs.  This means that you could
have an order sheet where you decide if the volume control should be a
slider, knob, two pushbuttons, rocker, etc...  Maybe the client
prefers LED's to LCD's or florescent.  The client could choose between
traditional VU meters and segmented.


	At first reading this may all sound contradictory to the
pursuit of sound for itself.  But I feel that if the client is paying
such a large sum for the components, they should be able to have them
look they way they want as well.  

	A question of caution:  does anyone know how the rearanging of
knobs or whole subassemblies in a component affects sound, i.e. R.F.
interference, crosstalk...   ...is the best solution to have the
entire component fiber optic?

Just for the record, my background is in industrial design and
computer graphics, not technical audio.

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