Demeter TGP-3?

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I get what you're saying and don't disagree with it. However, it doesn't seem ethical for me to post it when he's still clearly in the business of making them. He's approachable and friendly and his gear isn't outrageously expensive, especially considering that he's still going to great lengths to source US made components where possible and the thing is made in CA of all places. I work in a different industry and have had a handful of my designs copied in the past 15 years, by much bigger companies, buy people who should know better. It pissed, changed the way I do my job and I lost out on financial opportunities. I'm not going to do it to James, even though I believe what you wrote is true. When you look inside the amp, the individual stages aren't that different from things we've seen before, but he put it together into relatively unique package. As a wrote before, had I realized that he was still making them, I wouldn't have posted the partial layout. Knowing what I know now, I feel that it was a mistake but it's out there and there's not a lot that can be done about it.

I wasn't asking you to post anything further, I'm sorry, I should have been more clear that I was speaking in general terms. You've helped me more than enough already, the layout you provided gave me a point of reference of what stuff goes where but it did not, as you fear, give away all the answers, it took me a long time. I thought it would take week or so to figure it all out but instead it took me over 6 months. The other thing here is that I doubt we're the only ones who traced out a schematic. There are people out there who have no intention whatsoever to show it to anybody because they plan on making money off of it. As counterintuitive as it may seem, the best means of preserving the integrity of intellectual property is a greater public understanding of it because the only way to prove intellectual theft is to know what was stolen. There is nobody in this business who I respect less than those who hoard information like it's their own for the sake of building replicas on the premise of a kleptomaniacal artificial monopoly, that's why I post this stuff publicly.