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RE: LOL!

What you are is a guy with questionable grammar, erratic spelling, and a predilection for name-calling, baseless accusation, unfounded generalizations, and that ever-reliable indicator of a weak position, ad hominem argument.

As for Wendell and Mark's missteps, I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've seen nothing but penny ante stuff -- forgetting to mention a center channel speaker in a few demos, saying something that pissed off a member of the press. If that's what you're referring to, I'm not sure why you say I failed to acknowledge them, given that I've been discussing them for the last two days. Or do you mean that I didn't start inventing paranoid theories about what happened and calling for everyone to be drawn and quartered?

Meanwhile, Magnepan has had a string of successful product introductions, weathered a very difficult economic climate and the challenges that face high end audio without sacrificing its identity as a company that sells high end gear at prices the middle class can afford, and, most recently, introduced a new compact model that won raves. To me a major misstep would be a product introduction that no one likes, or a failed business strategy.

Do I agree with everything they do? No. But look up the Dunning–Kruger effect. I've worked all my life in pro audio and video and had for a time a company that manufactured pro audio equipment, so I know something of the challenges businesses face. But, paradoxically, one of the consequences of that knowledge is that I know how little I know about the their business. I've had the good fortune to get to know some of the people at Magnepan, to get a sense of who they are, warts and all, and of some of the challenges they face and some of the strategies they've tried. But I don't have the lore that one acquires after working for at a company, sometimes for decades. So while like many here I make suggestions and try to convince them to do this or that, I don't believe that I know enough about their business to know better than they do how to run it.

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