Long story short I've spent the last few years designing HI-FI audio equipment and the end result is that I have product that sound better than anything I've ever heard at any price that won't cost an arm and a leg to make.
The extent of my R&D extends between amps, dacs, and driver technologies. Everything I design is conceptually unique and I have several patentable designs.
The entire reason I decided to go down this path of R&D is because I noticed after modding some amps I had that they sounded better than anything on the market that I heard at the time, vastly better. Then I went all out and spent years learning and developing to create the "ultimate" system.
It was originally just about my own end-enjoyment but after attending some Canjam events I realized my stuff was laughably better and that it would be a crime if I did not make a business out of it.
Now onto the problems, I've been in poverty for over a decade. Someone in New York was so impressed by my designs that he has been partially sponsoring my R&D and in return I would make him my best design, but I reached a point where I felt I could not take his money any longer without feeling like I was going to owe this guy forever.
His assistance has allowed me to jump start things to where I could not have done previously, now I have a fighting chance.
I have been avoiding things like kickstarter and similar investor type approaches because I fear it will work too well. I don't need to be pressured by outside sources when I haven't finished R&D yet. Theoretically, as soon as I start my business I will no longer be able to continue R&D, I have no connections to anyone interested in helping and therefore I am alone. This means I have to finish R&D first, at this rate if I'm lucky it will be another year, if I'm not several years. There shear amount of variables I have to take in every day is overwhelming considering that I have somewhere over 2 dozen designs and subcircuits to optimize, the thought process has been nearly a full time job in itself.
I would kill for an engineering partner but obviously I cannot pay them and I'm afraid of them stealing my ideas, there's nothing normal about my designs, it took countless hours and a lot of creativity to come up with them, the last thing I need is some guy ripping me off.
Inviting someone trustworthy to assist me for free that is genuinely interested in an audio design would be ideal but...yeah.
Through this journey I've been learning electronic theory as needed, not as an academic whole in order to increase efficiency. There are a lot of holes in my knowledge which slows down the whole process when I step outside my bubble of expertise and my knowledge of digital electronics is laughable even though I 100% need to learn it (not likely) or find someone who is competent in it because dac design has become an integral part of my design system.
I'm currently using third party DACs with my own analog stages but that can't last.
I haven't even gotten into the business challenges yet but that is something I won't even think too much about yet, I've got my hands full as it is.
Got any advice for me?
Anyone near Farmington, Connecticut want to join up and not rip me off?
The extent of my R&D extends between amps, dacs, and driver technologies. Everything I design is conceptually unique and I have several patentable designs.
The entire reason I decided to go down this path of R&D is because I noticed after modding some amps I had that they sounded better than anything on the market that I heard at the time, vastly better. Then I went all out and spent years learning and developing to create the "ultimate" system.
It was originally just about my own end-enjoyment but after attending some Canjam events I realized my stuff was laughably better and that it would be a crime if I did not make a business out of it.
Now onto the problems, I've been in poverty for over a decade. Someone in New York was so impressed by my designs that he has been partially sponsoring my R&D and in return I would make him my best design, but I reached a point where I felt I could not take his money any longer without feeling like I was going to owe this guy forever.
His assistance has allowed me to jump start things to where I could not have done previously, now I have a fighting chance.
I have been avoiding things like kickstarter and similar investor type approaches because I fear it will work too well. I don't need to be pressured by outside sources when I haven't finished R&D yet. Theoretically, as soon as I start my business I will no longer be able to continue R&D, I have no connections to anyone interested in helping and therefore I am alone. This means I have to finish R&D first, at this rate if I'm lucky it will be another year, if I'm not several years. There shear amount of variables I have to take in every day is overwhelming considering that I have somewhere over 2 dozen designs and subcircuits to optimize, the thought process has been nearly a full time job in itself.
I would kill for an engineering partner but obviously I cannot pay them and I'm afraid of them stealing my ideas, there's nothing normal about my designs, it took countless hours and a lot of creativity to come up with them, the last thing I need is some guy ripping me off.
Inviting someone trustworthy to assist me for free that is genuinely interested in an audio design would be ideal but...yeah.
Through this journey I've been learning electronic theory as needed, not as an academic whole in order to increase efficiency. There are a lot of holes in my knowledge which slows down the whole process when I step outside my bubble of expertise and my knowledge of digital electronics is laughable even though I 100% need to learn it (not likely) or find someone who is competent in it because dac design has become an integral part of my design system.
I'm currently using third party DACs with my own analog stages but that can't last.
I haven't even gotten into the business challenges yet but that is something I won't even think too much about yet, I've got my hands full as it is.
Got any advice for me?
Anyone near Farmington, Connecticut want to join up and not rip me off?