"Tell the industry what you want" postingboard

"Cannot the mbl's be used as reference speakers"
Sure, ok. What else should be the reference for, say cars, beverage to drink, music style, movie genre, what should my house look like, what food should be the reference, what flavor of ice-cream. Just make a list of everything you like so the rest of us will know what it is that we should think is best.

Time and phase accurate speakers. Stop designing speakers around out of phase midrange vs woofers or tweeters to "compensate" for poor electrical and construction.

okay. Let the '70s meet the...next century(?). I want an A/V processor that does it all...or nothing. Let it have the ultimate chip that can put your socks on for you...or not. May it upsample...or not. Let it have all of the imputs...15 pin, component, toslink, DVI, etc. etc., or simple native resolution passthru.

Give me all of the options/possibilities from the '70's. Do it with quality. Give me the choice.

Decided to revive an old thread since the vpi classic is such a good deal. I was reflecting on how a competetive product makes a company successful. Would like to hear what new ideas may have sprung up since the economy is weak and now's the time to make changes to remain in business.
I would hate to see another country dominate this industry. Bravo vpi keep up the good work.

I want to license interesting designs for a small fee and build them.

The doesn't constrain me to technically compromised designs which sell well in the market place, gets me more attractive furniture grade construction, can save tens of thousands of dollars over commercial products designed by the same engineer, and lets me do something more productive in my workshop than building jewelry boxes and humidors.

Siegfried Linkwitz's Orion++ may be the best example, where a license to build them for personal use is $230, boards are available for $200, and the rest of the parts are $3-$4k without amplifiers. His former Beethoven Elite which is outperformed in all areas ran $37,500 sold through conventional retail channels in 1998.