My concern is that QC issues are baked into the compensation as it is evaluating atleast two variables (coupler difference, IEM positioning/depth, IEM QC difference) simultaneously (even if these are averaged out (I do not know the de minimis comparable acceptance threshold) - which will prove diminishing due to both high reviewer churn in the hobby as well as Crin maintaining a database which whilst incredible and highly appreciated from a historical perspective does not always contain many of the up to date releases that current reviewers have recently been focusing on - understandably so as his priorities are not just review focused yet problematic in this case as there is a reliance on one person to handle a hobby with weekly releases).
If you are in contact with the lead on this project perhaps it would be more accurate to manufacture/prototype a test IEM with multiple switches representing different curves and a standard tip and insertion depth marking all matched to Crins coupler. This could then be sold (with strict QC testing by Crin on his coupler as it would be a very limited quantity release) or sent to each reviewer (as it is a limited set) for them to calibate against - this atleast would take one or two of the variables out of the equation when looking at coupler differences. It would consequently enable us to have a better IEM QC conversation.
I used to have a savant colleague who would always come up with absolutely brilliant, but valso ery complex solutions to technical problems every time he had heard my proposition of a much more primitive way of solving those.
Then, after 30 minutes long lecture on how it is to be done, describing every single detail I used to ask him - “ok, this is beyond my skills - I assume you would get that done”. And he was “ok, wait, what was your idea again?”
He is actually a guy that is absolutely fantastic asset for baby start-ups or R&D projects at conceptual stages, but going further he becomes less and less useful
I love him though, if I would only be smarter we would execute tons more amazing engineering designs
Hey hey - throw some money at me to do something and I get less lazy (and make myself sound like a stripper apparently)…
In addition to lazy I have selective hearing/reading so I am just taking this all as a compliment @pylaczynski no need to correct me / I enjoy living a lie
Remember in a video you did a little bit ago you said something along the lines of “Have any of you guys even heard of this company called Ziigaat?” and it was at the height of their newly garnered hype, now look at ya!
