gradoist
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I thought you r only searching for ideas. The prize you list means nothing at all if you want to find a real designer. How about 50% of your total profit?
I thought you r only searching for ideas. The prize you list means nothing at all if you want to find a real designer. How about 50% of your total profit?
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Not very clear what you want. From your first post it looks like a very high level audio engineer contest; not for the average headfier Joe..like me
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Although I'm not qualified to participate, I think it would be a good idea to give measurement specifications (i.e. maximum thickness).
+1 - as a potential designer here I'd want to know what supply rails are available at what currents. Also maximum thickness (i.e. height above PCB) as I reckon the best sounding amp will have trafos in it.....
This is the the most perplexing part about this 'contest'. The more entries that come in the more options hifiman have to copy or improve upon- for whose benefit?
But how is that different from just about any contest that involve invention or design? Just about everyone of them is hosted more or less the same way, where an organization is exchanging your right of the design for a prize. The contestants are of course expected to give up some, if not all, of the rights. Unless it is a contest hosted by a charity organization for some great good, I think one should not expect the hosting party to benefit nothing from the event. That should be a given. Like any of such contest, if you really think your work is worth more than what you can win, then you have the option of not participating. If you are participating, then of course you have believed that the price is at least worth as much as your work is, or maybe you just don't really care about the prize at all - but saying a person who is willingly joining a contest and knowing well what the prize is, is being treated unfairly, is making too much of a claim.
However, I do agree that the lack of fine print is problematic and should be corrected ASAP.