grawk
Itinerant Miscreant
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Are you going to call up John Grado and ask him what makes the HF-1 and RS-1 different, aside from the cups? Or the RS-1 vs the RS-2?
Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif Are you going to call up John Grado and ask him what makes the HF-1 and RS-1 different, aside from the cups? Or the RS-1 vs the RS-2? |
Originally Posted by Deathwish238 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why wouldn't he tell you? It should be no secret. No one is going to copy it and expect to get away with it Perhaps headphile needs to protect themselves legally... |
Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's easy to be critical of how others protect the things they do to earn a living. Open source works for some people. The larger the market for what oyu're doing, the easier it is to rely on consulting fees and referrals vs protecting your techniques and ideas. With grado vs sennheiser, or headphile vs every other diyer who doesn't really care if he makes a profit, there's a fine line between supporting the community (both grado and larry support headfi in any number of ways) and giving away your business and having to do something else for a living. It's like accusing a band of selling out. It's not selling out if it enables you to do what you love instead of working at a fast food restaurant forever. |
Competition is best for consumers. |
Originally Posted by Deathwish238 /img/forum/go_quote.gif In a competitive industry, no one makes much profit at all as people will keep coming in for a piece of the pie if there is a large enough profit. So...then why don't many others come in and mod headphones as well? |
Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif But there are other vendors who have decided to directly compete with Mr. Dale's products, specifically by woodying grados for profit. He's a small business, worked hard to define a niche and make a decidedly mediocre product something significantly more. The time was in the experimentation, figuring out what worked and didn't. If people recreate his work, he loses out on that. It's flat out rude to try and duplicate what he's doing and undercut his market. |
Originally Posted by markl /img/forum/go_quote.gif You can't compete with "free". If there is no profit margin to be made because nothing can be kept proprietary, guess what happens? Total stagnation, no inovation, dead market. |
Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif Competition is only good for customers if it's actual innovation. Copying others designs is bad for the community, because it gets people to stop innovating. |
Originally Posted by SuperNothing /img/forum/go_quote.gif Because headphone modding is a tiny market as are high end headphones in general. There isn't enough profit to have many people modding headphones. |