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<blockquote data-quote="sundownz" data-source="post: 7135241" data-attributes="member: 549523">Rather than answer that directly out of the gate... let me ask you are a couple of questions since you are puzzled...Why didn&#039;t Henry Ford release the 2011 Ford Taurus to begin with ? Was it because he didn&#039;t spend enough time on R&amp;amp;D ?Why didn&#039;t JL Audio release the W7 in 1990 ? Was it because they didn&#039;t spend enough time on R&amp;amp;D ?Fact is... without putting your best effort at a product out there and getting feedback and real world observations from customers there is no starting point. I could spend 10 years designing a speaker in-house, start shipping it to customers, and find out that it still needs some tweaks.For that matter... many of the tweaks I implement for Sundown are simply improvements that I want that I didn&#039;t think of immediately -- and I certainly won&#039;t wait until the next model year to implement a new idea if it can be beneficial. Do the improvements represent a flaw in the original product ? No, they do not, but they do make it an even better product (eg: New spacer rings and pole design for SA series just implemented). Unless you are totally against improvements, of course.Basically your inquiry assumes it&#039;s even possible to make a perfect product... why are there new versions of anything at all for that matter ?The difference with me is that I am open about updates, I tell people about them, and implement them right away. Every company in every business updates products but many wait for model year changes... I do not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sundownz, post: 7135241, member: 549523"] Rather than answer that directly out of the gate... let me ask you are a couple of questions since you are puzzled... Why didn't Henry Ford release the 2011 Ford Taurus to begin with ? Was it because he didn't spend enough time on R&D ? Why didn't JL Audio release the W7 in 1990 ? Was it because they didn't spend enough time on R&D ? Fact is... without putting your best effort at a product out there and getting feedback and real world observations from customers there is no starting point. I could spend 10 years designing a speaker in-house, start shipping it to customers, and find out that it still needs some tweaks. For that matter... many of the tweaks I implement for Sundown are simply improvements that I want that I didn't think of immediately -- and I certainly won't wait until the next model year to implement a new idea if it can be beneficial. Do the improvements represent a flaw in the original product ? No, they do not, but they do make it an even better product (eg: New spacer rings and pole design for SA series just implemented). Unless you are totally against improvements, of course. Basically your inquiry assumes it's even possible to make a perfect product... why are there new versions of anything at all for that matter ? The difference with me is that I am open about updates, I tell people about them, and implement them right away. Every company in every business updates products but many wait for model year changes... I do not. [/QUOTE]

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