Bristol - will Proprius be there?
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Topic: Bristol - will Proprius be there?
Posted By: Graham Slee
Subject: Bristol - will Proprius be there?
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 8:27pm
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Bristol - will Proprius be there? That's the big question on our minds right now. We're working into the small hours hoping and praying the Proprius will make a big splash at the Sound & Vision show starting February 24th at the Marriott City Centre Hotel. But the cliff-hanger is we don't yet have a case wrapped around it! We have some of the UK's best metal designers and metalworkers awaiting the arrival of this board...  I just have to machine a heatsink, mount it and test it. Sounds simple? I wish it were. I just hope I don't make a silly error. Then it's off to have its jacket fitted. Wish me success. ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 9:19pm
I wish you success 
Adrian.
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Posted By: suede
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 9:34pm
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So do I! Let's just hope you won't cause too many mandibular dislocations at the Bristol show  |
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 9:54pm
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Very best wishes for Bristol. Knock 'em dead!
------------- Jon Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
Posted By: mrarroyo
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 11:18pm
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Best of luck! ------------- Miguel |
Posted By: tg [RIP]
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 12:11am
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I do hope you manage to have it ready in time to strut it's stuff in public. That would be a rather nice conclusion to the lengthy development process. |
Posted By: iamalexis
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 2:45pm
| good luck graham. i hope you finish it in time! |
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 8:50pm
Best wishes again to all of you. I won't be in Bristol at the end of next month but I am looking forward to the day when I hear music through a Proprius amplifier.
------------- Jon Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
Graham Slee wrote:Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 5:43pm
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Bristol - will Proprius be there? The sad answer is no. I just got the case costs and they've killed the entire project dead. That's a British company trying to buy British -- it simply doesn't work -- Britain is down the pan and barking mad to boot! I mean, a case that's a bit of heatsink extruded by the ton, a couple of sides extruded in a similar manner (and in Italy), a tin bottom, and a couple of small pieces of punched aluminium for front and rear -- the cost? More than the PCB, all the electronic components, the chunky 120W external power supply and the cardboard box we were going to sell it in -- yes more! I ask you.... And then people ask why Britain isn't working.... That's the last time I ever ask a high tech British company for a quote. ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
Posted By: tg [RIP]
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 7:39pm
How very disappointment is that.
  
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Posted By: mrarroyo
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 11:12am
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I hate to say this but would you consider a Chinese made case? ------------- Miguel |
Posted By: ServerBaboon
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 6:08pm
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Or in possibly as part of the DAK range and buyers supply their on case if you have already had the PCB's produced.
------------- Steve ------------- Various bits of GSP Kit ..well two so far, unless you count the cables that is. |
Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 10:00pm
I'll probably end my days doing just that on everything the rate this bl**dy country is declining.... ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 10:44pm
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Very frustrating and surprising economics. I thought the same as Miguel, and I can see a cheaper box would still need some work in the workshop.
------------- Jon Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
Posted By: iamalexis
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 3:38pm
| graham, i wondered if you had found a solution to the cost of the case manufacturing? |
Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 7:53pm
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Yes. It's called a Yorkshire company. The cost of living must be extortionate down south - either that or the case manufacturers are... Too late for Bristol though. ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 8:51pm
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Glad you have found a solution, Graham. Sorry about not having a production model for Bristol, can you show the prototype? ------------- Jon Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
Posted By: iamalexis
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 6:36pm
| great news! look forward to seeing it once it is ready. |
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 11:01pm
And hearing it, of course!  ------------- Jon Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 8:59am
They'd only laugh. ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
Posted By: Frostg
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2012 at 11:16pm
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Any more news/updates/ specs on the proprius? Sorry Graham know you must be tired of people asking! Then if you develop speakers one could have a complete Graham Slee outfit for vinyl. And to then a DAC, and a complete outfit for digital. 
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2012 at 7:24am
I'm off to see the metalwork maker tomorrow regarding a number of issues and I hope he'll have some ideas on the Proprius case ideas I've put to him. A few contacts have called in for a listen to the existing prototypes and have commented on the "hole-free" and "independence of the speakers" sound stage (being driven by other items of our origin). I doubt we'll be developing speakers within the confines of our premises. It would require a move and my way of working isn't part of the the UK authorities mind-set (although it is in places like Japan) so I'd doubt I'd ever obtain planning permission to run a business in the Olde English way. They had big problems understanding it the way it is - long story - small premises. It is very difficult for people such as I to come to terms with the fact that the entire UK governance has a brain size smaller than the size of a pea (IMO). You can homogenize milk but not homo sapiens - latin for "wise man"... oh really?!? As for digital - when the chip manufacturers again offer DAC chips for people with a brain (probably not this side of Armageddon) I will do a proper DAC. ------------- That none should be able to park up and enjoy the view without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps |
Posted By: Frostg
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2012 at 9:01am
| Graham thanks four the update, and all the great work you and the team put in making, designing, testingbthevkit, let alone answering all the questions! :-) |