I want to license interesting designs for a small fee and build them.
The doesn't constrain me to technically compromised designs which sell well in the market place, gets me more attractive furniture grade construction, can save tens of thousands of dollars over commercial products designed by the same engineer, and lets me do something more productive in my workshop than building jewelry boxes and humidors.
Siegfried Linkwitz's Orion++ may be the best example, where a license to build them for personal use is $230, boards are available for $200, and the rest of the parts are $3-$4k without amplifiers. His former Beethoven Elite which is outperformed in all areas ran $37,500 sold through conventional retail channels in 1998.
The doesn't constrain me to technically compromised designs which sell well in the market place, gets me more attractive furniture grade construction, can save tens of thousands of dollars over commercial products designed by the same engineer, and lets me do something more productive in my workshop than building jewelry boxes and humidors.
Siegfried Linkwitz's Orion++ may be the best example, where a license to build them for personal use is $230, boards are available for $200, and the rest of the parts are $3-$4k without amplifiers. His former Beethoven Elite which is outperformed in all areas ran $37,500 sold through conventional retail channels in 1998.