OK I'm gonna step out on a limb and propose something y'all may think crazy. I find groups I work with have difficulty solving problems or innovating because they dont have an effective process to move ideas along to some valuable solution(s). I find the same true of forums like this. This got me wondering: What would happen if we efficiently harnessed the collective power of this forum to develop tweaks to Transporter?
One way to characterize an efficient approach would be: 1. Idea Generation- a simple brainstorm list without censoring, or evaluation; no ownership of ideas; just get the ideas captured. 2. Cost/Benefit Analysis of Ideas- use the forum to discuss likely cost/benefit of each idea one at a time in order to screen the rough list. Then distil our judgement by some kind of structured valuing or voting. 3. Testing of Selected Ideas- assign willing testers to actually install the tweaks in their Transporters and test results using methodology this forum agrees on. Methodology can include both objective and subjective approaches. 4. Selection of Proven Ideas to Implement- final discussion of results and evaluation of which ideas are 'proven' and worth implementing. I can hear people screaming: "GEEEEZ this things is barely out of the UPS van and you want to improve it? Why?" My answer is: "Cause thats what we do, we cant help it! And even tho it seems early to talk about improvements, often the best time to get ideas is when we are first confronted with something." I will be happy to try to keep us on track. Anyone up for this? If so, please chime in to this thread with tweak ideas, from the dubious to the sublime. Be sincere tho. If you enter toungue-in-cheek items I am stupid enough to add them to the list and it will just clutter things up! I will start us off: POSSIBLE TRANSPORTER TWEAKS 1. Chassis Damping, with Dyna-Mat like material 2. Replace the NE5534 Op Amps with Op Amps with "high audiophile cred" such as OPA627 or AD8610 3. Piggyback the AKM 4396 DAC chips 4. Add RFI/EMI Sheilding and/or ERS to the SMPS's 5. Replace the IEC input with a filtered IEC input -- atkinsonrr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atkinsonrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27994 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
