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<blockquote data-quote="Gary S" data-source="post: 1924758" data-attributes="member: 568291">All good companies, big or small, are going to copy other inventions where it&#039;s legal and not patented... it&#039;s a natural part of competition; moreover, it&#039;s a natural part of human learning to watch how someone else does it, and then copy that and improve upon it. How do you think you learned to talk? - you watched lips and listened, and then imitated. All the better manufacturers are learning from each other and improving on previous inventions.What disturbs me is that too many products are the same, &quot;me too&quot; products... it&#039;s as if some audio products are turning into comodities... the biggest differences seem to be cosmetic... (and woofers that look like car wheels, LOL!) as an example, amps on the outside can look very different... but on the inside, most are the same... try to find an amp that is not tri-mode anymore, with an inverter permanently wired in one channel... I&#039;d like somebody to name just one amp that is not a trimode design... I&#039;m betting there is not one out there... which means all the amps out there today are essentially Rockford Fosgate clones... even the Asian companies went the way of Fosgate!!!! But home audiophiles would laugh at those designs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gary S, post: 1924758, member: 568291"] All good companies, big or small, are going to copy other inventions where it's legal and not patented... it's a natural part of competition; moreover, it's a natural part of human learning to watch how someone else does it, and then copy that and improve upon it. How do you think you learned to talk? - you watched lips and listened, and then imitated. All the better manufacturers are learning from each other and improving on previous inventions. What disturbs me is that too many products are the same, "me too" products... it's as if some audio products are turning into comodities... the biggest differences seem to be cosmetic... (and woofers that look like car wheels, LOL!) as an example, amps on the outside can look very different... but on the inside, most are the same... try to find an amp that is not tri-mode anymore, with an inverter permanently wired in one channel... I'd like somebody to name just one amp that is not a trimode design... I'm betting there is not one out there... which means all the amps out there today are essentially Rockford Fosgate clones... even the Asian companies went the way of Fosgate!!!! But home audiophiles would laugh at those designs. [/QUOTE]

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