Beresford Bushmaster DAC

Here’s my proposal:

http://www.berghofer.com/photos/gear/bushmaster.gif

The buttons, the LEDs and the headphone jack are aligned vertically centered. LEDs and surface of “Input” button, headphone jack and volume knob use a medium silver, aluminium or white. In my example picture the second optical input currently is selected. *Please* no gold, red, green or blue here! This should be serious audio equipment, not a Christmas tree in full bloom or an entrance to a red-light etablissement. I think the additonal highlight colour on the volume knob and on its edge is superfluous, a simple embossed dot is more than sufficient to indicate the volume position. I also would appreciate if the headphone jack was not surrounded by a pit, but would perfectly align with the surface of the front plate. And the pit (is it required?) surrounding the “Input” button should not be deeper and larger than the pits where the LEDs are placed in.

The exclusive use of lowercase letters is done intentionally. The typeface I used is called “Neue Helvetica 65 medium”. Since type is being used “negative” or “inverted” (white characters on black background), a slightly increased letterspacing is required, otherwise the characters would appear too tight and close together, making white text on black background difficult to read. This easily can be seen when comparing my font with the unaltered type in “Digital to Analog Converter” in the top right corner of Stan’s prototype photo.

As a personal sidenote let me add that I consider the name “Bushmaster” a bit strange and weird, but your mileage may vary.

Werner.

I agree with Verner re the name, Bushmaster to me conjures up images of an Australian bloke in a hat adorned with corks! Not really hifi..................:eyebrows:

There's no difference between black on white or white as black as regards spacing between letters. The simple fact is that the font you chose has an intentionally narrow tracking between letters as it is intended to be used for large print sizes and as such needs spacing out when used with a small typeface size.

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Originally Posted by icehockeyboy

I agree with Verner re the name, Bushmaster to me conjures up images of an Australian bloke in a hat adorned with corks! Not really hifi..................:eyebrows:

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...or a hairdresser who specialises in Brazilians! :eyebrows:

Simon,

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Originally Posted by sq225917

There's no difference between black on white or white as black as regards spacing between letters.

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of course there is a big difference. For at least 200 years this has been a very important design principle in microtypography. See Five simple steps to better typography for more information. A direct quote:

“When reversing colour out, eg white text on black, make sure you increase the leading, tracking and decrease your font-weight. This applies to all widths of Measure. White text on a black background is a higher contrast to the opposite, so the letterforms need to be wider apart, lighter in weight and have more space between the lines.”

Feel free to not like me, but you should trust me when I talk about my profession’s topics.

Werner.

Who needs LEDs anyway?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...bushmaster.jpg

Bushmaster images.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bus...w=1278&bih=637
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bus...w=1278&bih=637

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Originally Posted by roob

Bushmaster images.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bus...w=1278&bih=637

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not enough Bling!

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Originally Posted by Werner Berghofer

As a personal sidenote let me add that I consider the name “Bushmaster” a bit strange and weird, but your mileage may vary.

Werner.

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I like it because its different :)

It's a good choice to get Google results and search results on forums.

The worst possible product model name is anything with around 3 characters or anything with spaces or - in the name/model.

As an example try searching this or any forum for the term ' DAC' , no results here even though we talk about Dac's every day.
It's a limitation of the forum software so a product name that is long and easy to spell is good.(in my opinion)

Some good photoshop work on the forums :)

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Originally Posted by webby

Who needs LEDs anyway?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...bushmaster.jpg

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I can dig it.

More industrial looking which is to my taste.
Less is more..as they say.