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In Reply to: RE: what is your most shocking wikileakesque revelations about the audio industry in the last 3 years? posted by jeromelang on December 10, 2010 at 00:10:44
More like a cottage industry. Niche, or almost non-existent, especially when you take out "Tee-Vee Sound" products and anything made in China.
Alas, the Audio Industry is going the way of personal aircraft and cigar humidors. Bottom line: chicks don't dig it and most people do not play recorded music unless it is on IPod headphones, car, computer or boom box.
We are like crazy uncle Willie, out in the back shed playing with his 40' antenna for his ham as the kids are Skype-ing to a friend in Romania.
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I think half the problem with audio industry is that the designers don't know what to listen for anymore.
Or don't you know what to listen for anymore either.
The high end industry was never very large. The old Mark Levinson company was probably the largest with 80 employees, before they downsized to about half that number. Conrad Johnson has about 21 or so employees and that number includes both Conrad and Johnson.
Many, if not most companies, these days subcontract out cabinet work and such, particularly speaker companies.
If you believed the high end industry was ever huge, you were sadly mislead. Even Saul Marantz started off building his components in his basement.
STu
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