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RE: Why Can't The Audio Magazines Do This?

Thanks very much for the kind words. I think that what you are describing about other industries is happening to high-end - and it didn't used to be that way. It seems that all industries are headed to the sole goal of "making money". I don't know about Fender, but I've been reading about Gibson, and how Henry Juszkiewicz has just about run that company in the ground. When I go to YouTube there are videos of people opening up brand new Gibson guitars with significant defects - the quality is just gone.

I'd hate to see audio end up in the same place with video and all of these industries that are just in it for the money. Once a company goes public, it is a virtual death sentence. Just look what happened to Levinson after Harman bought them out. The one and only reason that they were being revived was because Nissan signed an absurdly long-term deal with Harman for their car audio. Over half of Harman's revenue comes from car audio.

Did you hear that now that Samsung has bought Harman they have shut down AKG completely? All of the best engineers left to start a new microphone/headphone company called Vienna Acoustics. Luckily Sennheiser is still privately owned - third generation brothers now run the company. It's a crazy world.


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