Hello, Will. Ralph's proven he's one of the better people in the industry, and I feel confident he'd help get you where you need to be.
Coincidentally, high-end audio manufacturers of less ethical nature leave their customer base in a very bad way by having taken on this "proprietary" position of their components in the past generation. Having seen the number of high-end audio companies who go belly up obviously correlate with the sad reality of all too many folks wind up with a multi-thousand dollar door stop because they can't find folks to repair their components, it's become a huge issue in my thinking. People invest in complicated solid state amplification and digital components with eye watering prices from the sort of tiny boutique manufacturers that represent this industry. What happens to their purchase over time, especially, if the company's long gone?
Not sure if this current effort will succeed, but I'd love to see our community glean benefit from those leading the charge in the larger consumer sphere, a major provision of which would be a return to the days when manufacturers published meaningful service manuals / schematics: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqa49/washington-right-to-repair-iphone-cpu-throttling
Coincidentally, high-end audio manufacturers of less ethical nature leave their customer base in a very bad way by having taken on this "proprietary" position of their components in the past generation. Having seen the number of high-end audio companies who go belly up obviously correlate with the sad reality of all too many folks wind up with a multi-thousand dollar door stop because they can't find folks to repair their components, it's become a huge issue in my thinking. People invest in complicated solid state amplification and digital components with eye watering prices from the sort of tiny boutique manufacturers that represent this industry. What happens to their purchase over time, especially, if the company's long gone?
Not sure if this current effort will succeed, but I'd love to see our community glean benefit from those leading the charge in the larger consumer sphere, a major provision of which would be a return to the days when manufacturers published meaningful service manuals / schematics: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqa49/washington-right-to-repair-iphone-cpu-throttling