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No screaming here.

I think Magnepan delivers amazing value for money. QC issues (which as you say may be isolated occurences) aside, they are very good speakers. Stock, they may not be works of art, but they are made well enough to deliver the goods.

I can appreciate a cost-optimized basic design, especially when it stands the test of time.

I wouldn't try to over interpret what Mr Diller wrote. If, as he stated the last time he visited here, they can sell all they can make, then from a business perspective Magnepan is successful.

I also wouldn't narrowly parse what he says. It takes a politician to put things in such a way as not to offend _anyone_, and I think Mr Diller is not a politician. What he did say, I think, besides being mostly honest (with one exception which I'll get to) was:

1) We can't afford to try things that we don't absolutely know work.

2) We know our market well enough to know what it will bear.

3) We do keep track of what you guys say but a lot of what you can do
as individuals is too expensive/unproven for us to do as a company.

4) The leadership torch has been passed to Mark Winey and we remain
committed to the continuation of the mission.

Now the only statement that I found somewhat questionable was the one about competing with China. Where are the Chinese Magnepans? Are planar-magnetic/ribbon speakers even an area where there is another low cost player?

Now, I appreciate that taken in a certain light Mr Diller could have pissed some people off. But I think, Peter, that you operate at a completely different level than Mr Diller. I wouldn't even call you a competitor unless maybe your mods cost Magnepan a few sales of next-higher-up models, which is possible.

I don't think Mr Diller meant to diss anyone, certainly I didn't take it that way...

FWIW.



Edits: 01/19/11 01/19/11
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