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Great photo!
JM
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Or "Golf Digest."
What's up with that?
......balding, overweight, old white guys that sit alone in the dark and have plenty of money to spend on male enhancement and cables.
I would need Viagra to get it up with that woman.
What advertising "professional" thought that was the perfect ad photo?!
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She may have preferred a larger model anyway. Speaker, that is :-)
LOL!
The ad is mid-pro (advertising-wise) on all aspects.
That is NOT a sexy woman. Too cold looking.
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"I would need Viagra to get it up with that woman."
Liar.....
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
Those poor LPs on the shelf are going to warp, the bastard.
When I first saw this advert I couldn't decide if it was a fiendishly subtle joke or an extraordinarily clumsy attempt at repositioning the new Thiel brand. After reading the responses so far, I'm still not sure.
In my mind it was a try for a 50's - 60's nostalgia piece. Of course, in our present society where everything has a sexual connotation the word "elevate" does stand out.
....could be a spoof of the "what sort of man reads playboy" mentality/campaign of the 70s as mentioned elsewhere. For full effect, you probably had to be there.
That is precisely what I flashed on when I saw it. Maybe that's not what was intended, but it certainly had that effect on me, even if unintended.
Frankly, triggering memories from youth in middle aged men seems a very reasonable advertising technique. Hard to believe those ads from the 60's are a half century old now. Geez, I remember when I was a kid in the 60s thinking that something from the early 1900s was absolutely ancient and utterly foreign to my experience. I wonder if the kids today think that way, or whether 60's retro is cool enough to bridge the gap.
The ad does have a "noir" quality to it.
...if the ad caught your attention...it worked.
Thiel with Viagra package? Free shipping and handling!
Handling extra... (hehe)
http://mindseyemusic.blogspot.com/
As my reference loudspeaker (CS 2.4 / CS 2.7). I can hardly await to see & hear the next evolution of THIEL.
I actually like this humorous ad.I think there are some good reasons why joking around this way might lead to new sales, one reason being the rise of the "sugar daddy" culture that has risen up in the wake of a struggling economy...
Edits: 04/13/15
...Naomi in Mullholand.
I don't know what she has to do with the 1% or a culture of sugar-daddys.
Ambition, Envy, and Lust have a lot to do with the "1% and the culture of sugar-daddys" IMO. Those things also had a lot to do with "Naomi in Mullholand" (shown above one of her more "elevated moments").
Great parody, of all those Playboy ads. You know, "What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy?"
Even the colors used and hue match those old ads.
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The dotcom at the bottom of the page gives it all away.
I didn't think it was possible to capture the elements of a trained pet, misogyny and unearned luxury all in one photograph.Thiel certainly has sunk to a really low of a low. I wonder how long until they are out of business? The old company was never this troglodyte....
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Edits: 04/12/15
Kind of a weird outlook. Back in the day it was called romance or depending on the situation, seduction. Have you never heard of entertaining a woman with dinner, fine wine, and song to see where it might lead? Or do you simply ask for permission like the current campus conduct codes?
Poor speaker position, no rice-paper sleeves and LPs stacked so they'll warp - whatever were they thinking? If an ad agency came up with this surely someone at Thiel should have checked it?
And as for the poor young woman ... I think behind the rictus smile she's thinking 'please, no more female vocal records' and the unnatural way she's sitting in the chair is bending back her right arm so she can use the pain to focus on surviving the ordeal. Either that or her grip on the chair is meant to be suggestive - nah, audiophiles wouldn't fall for something like that.
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13DoW
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Your comments made me go back and spend an additional 20 seconds to the 20 seconds
I spent looking at the ad initially. In the first glance I thought it was some old ad taken from
a mag. Something from the 60's with that retro look and design. Paid NO ATTENTION to
which company it was, since it looked like the SOS old boy mentality at work that I ignored for
decades.
Someone has been watching "Mad Men" and hopping on the trendmobile!
Good thing Thiel is better at building speakers than that ad agency is at trying to sell them!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
... You might need to explain your comments.
I'm no help, I can't stop laughing.
Smile
Sox
Brunno, was your comment meant for the Madonna on the Tonight Show post?
Edits: 04/13/15 04/13/15
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Listened to the new TM3's yesterday for 2-3 hours and regardless of your big use of words the speakers sounded incredible. When they were playing vinyl, people stopped in their tracks. Maybe you should judge on your ears instead of your grammar/big words. Sorry just tired of people burying brands before actually hearing them. I like the Monitor Audio chick a lot better.
I'm sure the speaker sounds fantastic but Bromo' is right. The ad is so patrician it's practically smoking a pipe and wearing slippers. 2015? They're burying themselves.
Do you want to be appealed to in this way?
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Ah yes, a pipe -- or a fine cigar -- the slippers, a smoking jacket or silk robe, a beautiful woman, and perhaps a wee drop of single malt -- elements of a great evening. To Hell with the speakers!
Would remind me of a much better, happier time when you were not rushed to meet some deadline, read and see the world trying destroy itself worse than ever, at the airline terminal the customer still mattered and was treated as such, when a car was just that and not a load of electronics that cost a fortune to display and a replacement tail light lens cost $2 and not $500, when in the evening you and the family would stroll the neighborhood kids in hand without fear. Shall I go one. Oh, and engineers like Saul, Frank, Peter, Biggs, Smith, Hafler, and many others were engineering and making high quality audio components and they were being manufactured in the US. Oh, and you could go the Kalamazoo and order a Checker Marathon and go to the local car dealer and really built that new car the way you wanted without paying huge penalties.
Yes, give me ads that look like they were penned by Fisher during their tube heyday as that ad reminds me of just that. The new ads generate no positive emotions in me; making me want to enjoy an afternoon at the audio salon sipping some wine while sitting with a knowledgeable sales person who was not reminding himself of what to push that day or calculating a commission while totally ignoring the customer. If anything, just the opposite since they simply confuse me with numbers and giving me the feeling I had to already know it all when I went in to see some order taker posing as a knowledgeable salesperson who in reality does not understand the purpose of the button labeled "Power".
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
As idealized in your post and in these LP covers.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
... I believe people who delude themselves to believe how much better things were in the 50s/60s are remembering the past through rose coloured memory cells.
I always find it ironic when folks muse online about how much better the 50s/60s were.
What a time when not all citizens in your country or mine could even vote! (something to get all warm and fuzzy about I'm sure.)
Nothing beats the here and now.
IMHO todays audio equipment stands head & shoulders above anything from the 50s/60s. There is nothing wrong with nostalgia but reality beats it hands down.
Life's good, enjoy it!
d:o)
Smile
Sox
"Nothing beats the here and now."
That's good since it's all we got!
And it IS good indeed, better than the 50's & 60's in every way. Been there, done that, wouldn't go back for all the tea in China.
Rick
how you romanticize the past...rightly, it seems.
roger wang
I'm with you on this, Brian -- all the way.
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