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Has anyone been able to duplicate these results?
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I agree but it's an added plus that I've never read or head a single customer bad experience from the Tec whom I send my equipment to. I'm obviously happy.
I do not have any beef with you in any way in fact I might even consider sending a radio your way. I would say this though before you can expect other's to replicate your results I would think they would at the very least be able to examine a sample of your work with out opening the the cover's. Kind of like Mr. Carver had to do to back up his claim that he could mimic the characteristics of any super expensive premium amp with his designs. He was allowed to have the high end amps in question for testing but was not allowed to remove the over's. He passed the test with flying colors. I own some of his amps.
On top of that another consideration might be that people not want to take the time or trouble to attempt to reverse engineer your results. Much easier to reverse engineer an item than an idea or a series of idea's or processes. Even large corporation usually do not give their customer base something they are not demanding unless they need to try and gain conquest customers and gain market share. Normally companies milk technology for all it's worth and only release new products when Moores Law predicts it will be cost effective to do so. I can not recall the last time I ran into anyone using a CB in the real world that even knows was a db is let alone what it means to receive a sinad at -135db down. Most can barely wrap their mind around what a watt is and what it means to modulate past 100%. Just look at the garbage that turns up on ebay drilled full of holes, wires running like spaghetti, components hanging free in space, 140% modulation all kinds of harmonics and cheap "Super Swing" kits as plentiful as pigeons in Europe or water in Michigan!
No most people do not even know what a radio should sound like and behave like when not butchered. Before we worry about over the top performance beyond the OEM's design specifications we need to get everyone to at least understand what a terrible radio alignment produces and get them to avoided that!
I applaud your skill as a professional though. I am especially interested in passing more high frequencies on CB radios with out becoming a splatter box. I have a voice like Darth Vader I need more bass in my voice like I need an extra whole in my head. High's though I always welcome. On SSB where I like to live extra bass does nothing to make you more understandable or to help in a pile up! To be honest I think 99% of men that talk on a CB would do well to stop chasing lows because it does nothing for them and the crappy little speaker in radios does not do bass justice either. Plus bass and over modulation has to be the worst recipe ever for actually being understood or using your power effectively. It makes about as much sense as putting skinny tire on a super car and then wondering why all you can do is spin the wheels and slide all over the place.
Actually I'm one of his customers.
I'm not the guy who made the video.
The reason I posted the video is because if anybody claims to have duplicated those results I would be more than happy to have them tune a radio so I could compare their work to the guy who made this video.
Most people hate it when you tell them you plan on comparing their work to someone elses work
It's been a while but have you talked to mark about the lack of terminating resistors on his test equipment when he trims the magic coax lengths? Has he made any videos on the subject?
Dodge ball anyone??
My favourite quote from that movie is "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
He did say that if people want to criticize his bench that they need to show their bench and explain why their bench is superior to his bench.
That was about the gist of the conversation.
I don't have the equipment that he does and am not in the CB repair business. He has nice equipment but uses it to impress people that don't know any better. I do know a bullshit artist when I see one. It sounds like that was a question he didn't know how to answer.
Think about it. As much time as he's spent explaining all of his other theories and making videos why could he just not give you a real answer? If he isn't clueless he's just hiding the secret ingredients to the snake oil.
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The thing that impresses his customers the most is being able to hear him for an hour and a half before they get to him.
Unfortunately in this business 30 minute range is about the most you're going to hear from any of these guys who were in the business.
( and that's only two or three of them. Most of them have a 10-minute range )
A million dollar test bench means nothing if the tech has no clue. seriously, just like some operators with a whole 7 foot rack full of audio gear thinking they sound so much better than the guy with knowledge of how to set his filter and internal EQ and has a simply studio microphone and perhaps one piece of external gear. Looks is impressive but it needs knowledge and skill to make it work and sometimes less is better.
This is a forum with a wide audience, why not invite him to join here and participate in the discussions. If he is a good as you claim him to be he will surely garner more customers for his effort.
I agree with you totally.
In his mind if it doesn't pay him the money it's not worth his time.