More potential bad news for some big names...

grislybutter

2,991 posts

11-21-2024 at 02:39pm 

@nonoise Yes Andrew Robinson is a fraud. Honestly I don't know why anyone would review contemporary Marantz gear in the audiophile category. It's cheap mass produced, mass market stuff

Nonsense.

denon and marantz are long gone. who cares if the name finally disappears from current production materials? klipsh, tho--im surprised they are at risk.

I suspect the audio industry, like many others, and Harley-Davidson comes to mind, are finding the baby boom generation has passed the peak years of spending.  As a member of that group, I can say I've accumulated most of what I need/want, and will not be a great customer in the future.  The generations coming behind the boomers are smaller, poorer (?) and have different tastes.  The book Boom Bust Echo was a good read on this subject.  

The Masimo brands will be on the block in the next few months if not sooner now that Masimo is controlled by Politan.

As with McIntosh and SF, any company that is controlled by private equity. It's a question of when rather than if.

There is a future for at least some of these companies if they can return to stable ownership and management.

The Masimo experience was a disaster, as are most cases of highly unrelated diversification.

I went to Tampa audio show right after Covid and I couldn’t believe the prices that people were asking for their gear. I listened to some new speakers that sounded ok, just 2-ways, 1 was $10k and the bigger model was over $30k. My $2k 3-way revel speakers in my living room sounded better than the $10+k speaker and on par with the $30+k speaker. Then I listened to a larger pair of multi-driver floorstanding speakers that sounded pretty good, and a couple of us thought they might be in the $10-$15k range. When we were told they were over $100k, we fell out of our chairs. My new revel BE speakers sound better as do my large Usher speakers that are both < $15k each. The new ps audio fr30 speakers blow these $100k speakers out of the water, so I know that there are manufacturers can still build very good quality stuff for reasonable prices.

In other rooms for example, prices for mbl, Jolida, Borreson, and others seemed their price increases were well within inflation limits.

I’m done with audio shows if all they have is ok/decent stuff for outrageous prices.