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In Reply to: RE: Freeloaders? posted by Barabajagal on July 22, 2014 at 18:49:28
Haven't seen one in person, but those resin barrels are gorgeous. You got a Porsche? For racing? Sales must be damn good. Congrats!
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Haven't seen one in person, but those resin barrels are gorgeous.
Thanks. The one upshot of our regular machinist pulling up roots and moving to Australia is that we ended up partnering with a high end fountain pen maker to do our barrels. When I saw that particular resin in their materials library, it was love at first sight.
You got a Porsche? For racing? Sales must be damn good. Congrats!
That was my business partner's doing (he runs a cabinet making business of his own). He'd raced snowmobiles—he's Canadian—and motorcycles and has always wanted a race car. He'd been going to the track recently with some friends of his who race and the bug bit him hard. Called me up one day and said "Hey! We've got a race car!" He'd found a deal on a 944 and 28 foot trailer he couldn't refuse.
While it's his car, it will be racing under The Audio Guild's livery.
I wonder: When was the last time a race car ran with an audio company logo. I could easily imagine it happening in, say, the '70s. Anyone know?
I'm sure it hasn't happened in a long time. I'll be looking for you guys on the NASCAR circuit.
Jim
That had a sticker on it from the loudspeaker company Apogee.
JM
Actually Pioneer does quite a lot of race car sponsoring. In fact there was a Porsche out at the track when my partner was there that was sponsored by Pioneer.
But ours might be a first for an audio company outside the mass market.
They're not an audio company. They're a conglomerate that sells audio--especially car audio--among other things. Very different.
They're at least primarily audio.
FWIW, I've got a portable Bose Bluetooth speaker that I'm very fond of, their $300 Soundlink 3 (?) It ain't hi fi, but it doesn't sound tizzy and annoying, or like the sound is coming from inside a can, like most small, inexpensive, modern speakers. And it does do a very cool magic trick, in that the sound that comes out of it seems literally larger than the device itself.
Bose doesn't sell audio they sell lifestyle. Just as expensive watch makers are not in the business of selling watches - they are in the business of selling prestige.
I think the point was about serious hi-fi companies not the likes of Bose or Bang and Oluffson who have dedicated shops in major shopping malls. And for most people such brands are "good enough"
This guy?
Edits: 07/23/14
Oddly, I first heard it in one of those open mall stores, out in the middle of the mall. Chicago I think. Very noisy. Still, I thought it sounded special for such a tiny device, and I was tired of using headphones in hotel rooms. Eventually bought one at the local Apple store. "Special"? That might be saying too much, but it's pleasant enough to listen to.
I should say that I haven't heard it in weeks. My 16-year-old son absconded with it, carried it off to chamber music camp (OK, it was with my permission). Because of it, he tells me, his cabin is the "party cabin", where young pianists and string players hang out until early hours listening to "Shosty" Preludes and Fugues and Beethoven string quartets.
Jim
Ha!
Actually I rather like its design. Might pick one up for the shop.
Fair enough.
But hey, we haven't even hit the track yet. Car still needs to be painted, and for the class we'll be racing in, the roll cage needs to get beefed up a bit, need to get a HANS device, my partner needs to get his racing license, etc. So probably won't be until this fall that we'll be officially racing.
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