"Tell the industry what you want" postingboard

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.

I want two things.
1)a under $1000 SSP that does thru an imput on a high quality Preamp that is easily upgradable and/or you can pick 4 processes desired. Who the heck uses stadium mode
2)a $1000 turntable with arm that looks bad ass like a big fat thick 4 inch table. Like a VPI TNT on steroids.

I would like a digital source with high quality eq and tone controls in the digital domain. Preferably a music server like a Linn DS.

I've seen this in preamps but think it is more ideal in the source. Less digital conversions and less jitter.

Newly manufactured tubes with the sonics of the best NOS combined with quality assurance testing and consistency, as well as cost efficiency(i.e. value pricing) of the best modern manufacturing.

Drubin's suggestions on better input labeling and spade/post standards are great ideas, too. Cheers,

Spencer