Soundsmith having Issues because of COVID


Don't know if there's any way to help but he posted this on AudioAsylum:

 I WISH I have the luxury of time, but with this virus and its effect on my many employees and my business surviving this, I unfortunately do not. I look forward as I have done for 50 years to help all my customers, no matter what level of cartridge they have bought - many times not even my designs. But time right now is the final frontier for me and my company. Sales are at ZERO and overhead/payroll continues as everyone is sheltered at home. We are in the epicenter. I sent everyone home 8 weeks ago.  

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Chakster, where are you from?
Commiserations if you are doing worse than most. The collapse of the oil price is crippling Iran and Nigeria especially, adding insult to the injury of Covid.

Yes, you could say this thread is a First World problem...so what if an audio company goes bust, noone will starve, there are thousands of other carts you can buy.

It was that Peter Lederman posted publically of his woes, and it's chimed with a lot of people.

I run two small self employed therapy clinics, have had to shut and let two associates go. If I fold for good, I won't starve (just), and therapy will always exist.

For me, I absolutely value the small, customer-centered business, in everyday life as well as audio. I view Peter as that rare combination...dedicated, traditional, value-minded, and approachable.

The world of audio is mortally wounded if Peter folds. Yes, the price gougers and bling merchants will survive, charging their $200k for tts, $50k for arms, $25k for carts...they'll thrive in the post Covid, Asian-centered hyperinflationary priced ephemera non reality.

But Peter, bringing a taste of the upper class to the middle class, will be a huge loss. And thus this thread was born.

Genuinely good luck to you and yr compatriots. 
Chakster, where are you from?
Commiserations if you are doing worse than most. The collapse of the oil price is crippling Iran and Nigeria especially, adding insult to the injury of Covid.

I’m in St.Petersburg, Russia @spiritofmusic 
Covid-19 and oil prices together killing our economy and this must be the hardest time ever in 20 years (disaster for small business).


I hear you Chakster.
Bought my redesigned tonearm from a compatriot of yours in Moscow. Top class product.
What can one say...other than we have to survive, there's no alternative.
As they say, see everyone the other side of the Covid Curve.