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akg 460/480 owners please read
« on: October 05, 2012, 08:47:29 AM »
just curious how many akg owners would buy active cables if they were available. private message me and let me know if you would be interested in buying
a new pair. these will be new and  available in long and short legnths.  if response is good we will make them for other mics. schoeps/gefells/neumann/oktava.....ect
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2012, 11:06:35 AM »
just curious how many akg owners would buy active cables if they were available. private message me and let me know if you would be interested in buying
a new pair. these will be new and  available in long and short legnths.  if response is good we will make them for other mics. schoeps/gefells/neumann/oktava.....ect

:hmmm: (checks today's date).  It's not April 1. 

What does this all mean?

Perhaps this will help answer your question: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=153427.0
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2012, 11:21:25 AM »
marking thread and staying tuned for mo' info.   ;D

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2012, 11:40:21 AM »
just curious how many akg owners would buy active cables if they were available. private message me and let me know if you would be interested in buying
a new pair. these will be new and  available in long and short legnths.  if response is good we will make them for other mics. schoeps/gefells/neumann/oktava.....ect

Mainly just marking the thread, as I think I gave up on wanting active AKGs a long time ago and have sold my Gefells that I would have loved to have had actives for.

In terms of your request though, if you want a sense of the potential market, I'd just read through the AKG active thread Acidjack posted, and the 4 that preceded it.

If you want anything better in terms of a market assessment than you can get from those threads, I think you need a lot more information.  Starting with -- who is this "we" that will be making them?  Does the project team have any experience with machining and any experience with circuit design and electronics?  Have you made any products like this before?  Have you designed and implemented mics before or active cables before, even as a DIY project for yourself?  Is the design completed, prototyped and tested?  When do you expect to have a market-ready solution available?

Then of course all the questions about the product itself.  It seems from your other posts that you have a machine shop, which at least sounds like the product you envision would be machined out of some kind of metal and not just that you want to house active electronics in a cutoff end of a magic marker.  But if I were a potential customer, I'd like to know more about what you envision (or perhaps have already made and prototyped).  Machined metal collettes -- out of brass?  What about the electronics?  Just a active head with FET/electronics that would have to be used with 460 or 480 bodies?  Would both the 460 bodies work and the 480 bodies work?  Would the "active" collettes really be a full mic body in a small package so all you need is a cable and XLR connector?  Would the active collettes need to be paired with something like the PFAs from Naiant?  Would the active collettes not work with 460/480 bodies and you'd need something like the Busman busbox or JKlabs ECMS box to run them?

From the standpoint of asking about who would buy them, if people respond yes, do you want a commitment from them about buying them?  Do you want those who respond yes to put money up front?

Sorry, not trying to bust your balls at all.  I just think if you can't provide a lot of depth to what the plan is, who is conducting the project, what the timing is, how far along design and prototyping are, and perhaps even what the cost target is, I don't think you'd get much better of a potential market assessment than you could if you just read through the previous AKG actives thread.
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2012, 11:49:15 AM »
just curious how many akg owners would buy active cables if they were available. private message me and let me know if you would be interested in buying
a new pair. these will be new and  available in long and short legnths.  if response is good we will make them for other mics. schoeps/gefells/neumann/oktava.....ect

Mainly just marking the thread, as I think I gave up on wanting active AKGs a long time ago and have sold my Gefells that I would have loved to have had actives for.

In terms of your request though, if you want a sense of the potential market, I'd just read through the AKG active thread Acidjack posted, and the 4 that preceded it.

If you want anything better in terms of a market assessment than you can get from those threads, I think you need a lot more information.  Starting with -- who is this "we" that will be making them?  Does the project team have any experience with machining and any experience with circuit design and electronics?  Have you made any products like this before?  Have you designed and implemented mics before or active cables before, even as a DIY project for yourself?  Is the design completed, prototyped and tested?  When do you expect to have a market-ready solution available?

Then of course all the questions about the product itself.  It seems from your other posts that you have a machine shop, which at least sounds like the product you envision would be machined out of some kind of metal and not just that you want to house active electronics in a cutoff end of a magic marker.  But if I were a potential customer, I'd like to know more about what you envision (or perhaps have already made and prototyped).  Machined metal collettes -- out of brass?  What about the electronics?  Just a active head with FET/electronics that would have to be used with 460 or 480 bodies?  Would both the 460 bodies work and the 480 bodies work?  Would the "active" collettes really be a full mic body in a small package so all you need is a cable and XLR connector?  Would the active collettes need to be paired with something like the PFAs from Naiant?  Would the active collettes not work with 460/480 bodies and you'd need something like the Busman busbox or JKlabs ECMS box to run them?

From the standpoint of asking about who would buy them, if people respond yes, do you want a commitment from them about buying them?  Do you want those who respond yes to put money up front?

Sorry, not trying to bust your balls at all.  I just think if you can't provide a lot of depth to what the plan is, who is conducting the project, what the timing is, how far along design and prototyping are, and perhaps even what the cost target is, I don't think you'd get much better of a potential market assessment than you could if you just read through the previous AKG actives thread.

inquiring minds want to know   :P

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2012, 12:18:22 PM »
I agree with Todd.  Details please!  I'm an akg 460 owner.

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2012, 12:22:14 PM »
I am a Gefell owner and would be interested as well.  I would also like some more detail if you care to provide.

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2012, 12:38:03 PM »
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2012, 12:43:51 PM »
 :drool:
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2012, 02:02:04 PM »
I would be interested as well.

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2012, 02:14:30 PM »
     Marking thread.

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2012, 02:25:28 PM »
MG's for sure...but this is prob just another cock tease.
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2012, 02:43:24 PM »
i do i do!  >:D
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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2012, 04:41:46 PM »
Thought you wanted to unload yours!!  ;) ;D :P

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Re: akg 460/480 owners please read
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2012, 05:09:39 PM »
Thought you wanted to unload yours!!  ;) ;D :P

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Yeah, I've been going back and forth on that. I may, if this turns out to be another wild goose chase. I've been eyeballing the Busman stereo ribbon mic, me likey Blumlein  ;D
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