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In Reply to: Question from a "manufacturer" posted by anders.sf@online.no on November 19, 2012 at 17:14:12:
First, I applaud your creativity and entrepreneurship.
I realize that comfort and practicality are not the primary concern here. However, I would suggest that there are 2 specific areas of concern that should be addressed if you are planning on selling these as more than just a limited run of design exercises.
1- You really should incorporate some adjust-ability in the width, not everyone's head is the same width. I know from experience as a professional wood worker that those miter joints are destined to break as people put them on and off their heads. Even if the joint is reinforced people tend to pull headphones apart as they put them on. Can you incorporate a hinged spring mechanism? If designed well it would be unobtrusive, say routed into the wood and nearly invisible. You also want some amount of clamping force to keep them on peoples heads.
2- You also need some vertical adjustment. Again, heads are all different sizes. As designed the actual speakers are not likely to sit on everyone's ears the same. A good way to do this might be a sling type pad that slides up and down the vertical members. You can see lots of example of this in other headphone designs. You may not want to compromise your design with something commonplace, but it works.
I used to work for a fairly famous furniture designer as one of his lead prototypers. The designer was also an artist and much of our work was ever destined to be on display in galleries. But, everything he designed had to be functional as if it would be used. In my experience we came up with some great collaborative designs. My role as the builder was to make some very aesthetically interesting ideas actually buildable and have some longevity to them. I've been to many furniture shows and seen some up and coming artists whose work I could tell just by looking at would fall apart. I've seen chairs that were never meant to be sat upon fall apart during parties because the guests did not realize they were display only. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate design for design's sake. But, in my opinion what really set the great dsigners apart was consideration of all aspects of the design including actual usefulness.
Just my 2 cants. Hope I am not offending you at all.
-Dogwan
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- A few suggestions... - dogwan 09:48:44 12/01/12 (1)
- RE: A few suggestions... - anders.sf@online.no 09:55:03 12/01/12 (0)
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