The vast majority of the circuit topologies used in all electronics have been invented by someone else.
Vibrato I am not going to give you nor anyone else an apology.
If you really think the guy only picked up what others were doing then please by all means cite the work he is lifting from...
Small example... how many amps out there have ever used anything other then A 100K OR 220k on the plates? Not that many I am betting...
So sorry if it stings a bit but not at all going to apologize for it.
If it rings true then so be it...if ti does not ring true for you....then why on earth would you be offended? Just shake it off... ;O)
The guy is original enough that he knew what he was doing was going to be sought after by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons.
It is a fact that today there are several companies who are benefiting from the mans work...
So is it a case of manifest destiny or was the guy completely right in thinking he would get the screws and man others would never think twice about using his circuits??/ Seeing how much they are worth now, how many companies have ripped him off directly or indirectly (hey my names in that hat too) I just find it interesting in retrospect.
if he was not onto something he and other felts was real then I do not see how he could have ever gotten off the ground with such stipulations.
As for "me" picking scabs? really? Cause I did not start this thread, nor did I post the contracts that were used many decades ago....
All I did was say things that make other uncomfortable....
As for the rumor mills.....Sorry Andy but I would not trust neither you nor Scott's word at this point. Both of you have agenda's of one kind or another and therefore I could not call upon either with credence.
Seem awfully weird so many people would take the screws without making a bigger fuss, class action lawsuits or the like.
Maybe a lot of them feel stupid for having singed those contracts though....so maybe your right...
All I do know is it a lot harder to sell amps if you got the ideas from a nice guy.....really super easy to be painted a hero if that guy is some kind of dickhead... Maybe he is a dickhead and all you guys have said is utterly true....it could be for sure.....I just find it odd that the only people who ever make those claims either have amp companies or are entirely affiliated with several, or are more often, people who are just repeating internet rumors as truth.
Whatever.... really it is no big deal as Andy points out. Dumble is not hurting, is still building and servicing the amps he chooses to, people still want them and somehow some even manage to get them, for everyone else there are numerous alternatives. The people who did get burned....well they should simply sue him....does no seem beyond reason to me. The fact that I know of no such action ever taking place is odd....
One would think anyone who rooked so many would at least end up wuth his arse in court at least once...
No worries guys...not at all trying to have a fight. Just expressing other viewpoints of the mystery that is Dumble.
My apologies if viewpoints expressed are not the ones some happen to like or agree with....but is this not just the way life is?