William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:fv0sjv$gnl$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> One could build a speaker selector -- with a very simple circuit --
>>> such that whether you selected one, two, three, or four speaker
>>> pairs, the impedance would stay constant. I ought to patent it.
>
>> You can't, there is prior art, such as the Russound box.
>
>But what is the prior art? My idea might be altogether new.
The prior art includes series resistors, series/parallel combinations
of speakers, and multitap autotransformers.
If your idea IS new, it could be patentable.
--scott
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