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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 51677" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Amp RantMagazine articles are rarely written by industry leader&#039;s&#039;. Maybe one leader, or more likely someone promoting one of the sundry protocols they had an interest in succeeding. I recall the shock when I ran into an old suit, that I had actually worked for 10 or 15 years earlier. Back then he was a slick general partner in a R&amp;D tax shelter that was big on licensing patented technology (and generating tax deductions several times your investment <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />. The government shut those down in the mid &#039;70s by rewriting the tax laws, but this guy mysteriously re-appeared in our booth at an industry trade show in connection with licensing one of those interface systems (might have been LW). Certainly somebody was counting on a huge payday and revenue stream. I don&#039;t know who is making money off it all now, not me.&nbsp; I have a slightly different perspective on this history, but agree the audio business has never been very adult about sharing. I recall attending one meeting at an NSCA show where many of us were working together on proposals for a common industry wide standard, but in most cases there were winners and losers among the different manufacturers who had already picked sides, (Just like XLR pin 2/3). I recall it taking an act of congress to get Peavey&#039;s Media Matrix to talk to Crest Power amps.. and they were in the same family so to speak. But you know me... I like powered speakers so you just send them an audio feed (maybe even wireless, but I&#039;m waiting for a consumer wireless computer protocol to do the heavy lifting. It&#039;s in the cloud dude... ) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&nbsp;JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 51677, member: 126"] Re: Amp Rant Magazine articles are rarely written by industry leader's'. Maybe one leader, or more likely someone promoting one of the sundry protocols they had an interest in succeeding. I recall the shock when I ran into an old suit, that I had actually worked for 10 or 15 years earlier. Back then he was a slick general partner in a R&D tax shelter that was big on licensing patented technology (and generating tax deductions several times your investment :-). The government shut those down in the mid '70s by rewriting the tax laws, but this guy mysteriously re-appeared in our booth at an industry trade show in connection with licensing one of those interface systems (might have been LW). Certainly somebody was counting on a huge payday and revenue stream. I don't know who is making money off it all now, not me. I have a slightly different perspective on this history, but agree the audio business has never been very adult about sharing. I recall attending one meeting at an NSCA show where many of us were working together on proposals for a common industry wide standard, but in most cases there were winners and losers among the different manufacturers who had already picked sides, (Just like XLR pin 2/3). I recall it taking an act of congress to get Peavey's Media Matrix to talk to Crest Power amps.. and they were in the same family so to speak. But you know me... I like powered speakers so you just send them an audio feed (maybe even wireless, but I'm waiting for a consumer wireless computer protocol to do the heavy lifting. It's in the cloud dude... ) :-) JR [/QUOTE]

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