Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ?


I noticed that merrill audio and mcintosh general don't show all the internals of their electronics. A friend of mine actually asked merrill to see pics of the internals of their amps and pres. The remark from merrill... 'people listen to how they sound they don't look at whats inside.'

But why hide it? Are they trying to protect some secrets of their tech? Might as well just show it... if you have dones something truly exceptional people will appreciate that and its going to be that easy to rip off.
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Both my amps (one tube, one solid state) are point to point and handmade.  The artisans who made them enjoy showing off the guts.

Both adhere to Einstein's "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler" philosophy.

There are proprietary tricks in both to enable them to sound like nothing you can buy off the shelf, so showing them presents some risk to reverse engineering.

However it would take someone with an intimate knowledge of electrical engineering to figure out exactly what the tricks actually are (and then they would say "well that's not what the books tell me how it should be done").