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Classe Audio rises again

"Today at the CES in Las Vegas, it was announced that Sound United (Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, Polk BOOM, HEOS, and Boston Acoustics) had acquired Classé Audio and that operations would be resumed under the leadership of Dave Nauber."

Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/class%C3%A9-audio-revived#Wd2WUWFxCqWoVdeU.99


mtrot
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mattmiller
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Yeah maybe they will go back to making really great sounding affordable amplifiers :-)
roberjerman
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The question is not whether the revived Classe can continue building products but can they sell enough to be profitable?Flip a coin! The hi-end market is extremely limited! Too many competing products!
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jnovak
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I also own a CP500 and a CA2200. I've owned 2 CP800's as well. I was curious as to if I could hear or see a difference between the two. They were identical in appearance as well as sonically. I understand a companies need to outsource to survive. Long live
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curiousjim
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Good news everybody...
deralte
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let's hope they manage to resolve the quality issues. have a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0Fm02nsLk
also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mfis5iF5F4
pre amp is already a month at a repair service!
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