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Dear fellow surround extremists
LONG BORING PREAMBLE
I first became a member of this unique forum in April 2012 when we announced the coming Surround Master and Total Perspective technologies (now called SST – Sweet Spot Technology). Over this time as with every “plan” things change……you develop and idea and another pops up that’s better. Still I think we are still on the same path and in the immortal words of Martin Luther King – I have a dream!
The path we are on and I think many QQ members would agree with can be loosely summarised by the following points:
1 Simplification: Today’s surround receiver processors are way to complicated for the average Joe to understand and set up correctly
2 Confusion: We have too many competing and often non compatible systems ….and now Atmos requiring between 9.1 to 32 channels in the home.
3 Speakers: Way to many, sales greatly minimises for anything above 5.1
4 Center channel: We hate it and see it as being a rather bad patch. We are promoting our SST that gets rid of it and enables you to sit anywhere.
5 Bandwidth: Today’s digital systems are in fact mostly lossy and need large data files essentially restricting its usage.
6 Stereo: Stereo is still the most dominant format and will remain so. All surround systems need to be fully compatible with it.
7 We really want to reignite a general interest to true stereo compatible surround sound.
We have spent a great deal of time developing our consumer market targeted surround sound systems (Y4) to hopefully solve some of the above issues and take on the big boys in the surround market. I think it is fair to say that we are very different from all the cloned “me to” stuff sold today. I fully understand that most member of this forum are not in fact our target market but we are actually of the same purist philosophy. Unfortunately sales is risky and few and far between in the high end market! Been there, done that.
We will continue to develop the Surround pre amplifier, updated SQ vinyl optomised Surround Master (Dave will start in a few days!!!) and in particular our Involve studio encoder / decoder. These are more related to our purist origins. Meanwhile we need to keep the cash flowing and in particular help fund our first production run of our Y2 and Y4 systems (see photo’s) and hopefully generate some publicity in the process.
We have decided to do an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign. As you will remember a week or so back I suggested that QQ members delay buying our stuff until the campaign starts as there will be some bargains.
The campaign is scheduled to start is a few days time and here is a preview. It is still being modified and edited so I would love to hear from you guys for any last minute changes.
Go to:
https://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/f284518f
Also up the very top of the page is a video arrow. Push the arrow and the password is (involve) – you will be treated to 3.5 minutes of our presentation, including yours truly just before the pirate.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I request that you guys could help spread the word about this campaign to Facebook, Twitter, OTHER FORUMS, audio clubs and friends?
Also if any of you guys would want to participate in the campaign with comments, Photos of you, statements and opinions by you, video presentations by you then please join in.
Recently PONO (with the support of Neil Yong) had great success in a similar campaign promoting an “audiophile Ipod” signifying a return to quality, we can only hope for a similar path
I hope this is not beyond the scope of this forum but I think we will all benefit if it succeeds.
Regards
Chucky
LONG BORING PREAMBLE
I first became a member of this unique forum in April 2012 when we announced the coming Surround Master and Total Perspective technologies (now called SST – Sweet Spot Technology). Over this time as with every “plan” things change……you develop and idea and another pops up that’s better. Still I think we are still on the same path and in the immortal words of Martin Luther King – I have a dream!
The path we are on and I think many QQ members would agree with can be loosely summarised by the following points:
1 Simplification: Today’s surround receiver processors are way to complicated for the average Joe to understand and set up correctly
2 Confusion: We have too many competing and often non compatible systems ….and now Atmos requiring between 9.1 to 32 channels in the home.
3 Speakers: Way to many, sales greatly minimises for anything above 5.1
4 Center channel: We hate it and see it as being a rather bad patch. We are promoting our SST that gets rid of it and enables you to sit anywhere.
5 Bandwidth: Today’s digital systems are in fact mostly lossy and need large data files essentially restricting its usage.
6 Stereo: Stereo is still the most dominant format and will remain so. All surround systems need to be fully compatible with it.
7 We really want to reignite a general interest to true stereo compatible surround sound.
We have spent a great deal of time developing our consumer market targeted surround sound systems (Y4) to hopefully solve some of the above issues and take on the big boys in the surround market. I think it is fair to say that we are very different from all the cloned “me to” stuff sold today. I fully understand that most member of this forum are not in fact our target market but we are actually of the same purist philosophy. Unfortunately sales is risky and few and far between in the high end market! Been there, done that.
We will continue to develop the Surround pre amplifier, updated SQ vinyl optomised Surround Master (Dave will start in a few days!!!) and in particular our Involve studio encoder / decoder. These are more related to our purist origins. Meanwhile we need to keep the cash flowing and in particular help fund our first production run of our Y2 and Y4 systems (see photo’s) and hopefully generate some publicity in the process.
We have decided to do an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign. As you will remember a week or so back I suggested that QQ members delay buying our stuff until the campaign starts as there will be some bargains.
The campaign is scheduled to start is a few days time and here is a preview. It is still being modified and edited so I would love to hear from you guys for any last minute changes.
Go to:
https://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/f284518f
Also up the very top of the page is a video arrow. Push the arrow and the password is (involve) – you will be treated to 3.5 minutes of our presentation, including yours truly just before the pirate.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I request that you guys could help spread the word about this campaign to Facebook, Twitter, OTHER FORUMS, audio clubs and friends?
Also if any of you guys would want to participate in the campaign with comments, Photos of you, statements and opinions by you, video presentations by you then please join in.
Recently PONO (with the support of Neil Yong) had great success in a similar campaign promoting an “audiophile Ipod” signifying a return to quality, we can only hope for a similar path
I hope this is not beyond the scope of this forum but I think we will all benefit if it succeeds.
Regards
Chucky
in surround sound at the moment. The features and benefits is a good summary of the system.
