This has been a month of topsy turvy business decisions. Earlier this week we heard that Blockbuster is considering the purchase of ailing Circuit City. Before that, Apple leapfrogged both Amazon.com and Wal-Mart to become the #1 music retailer. But now, a recent flurry of domestic and Japanese market activity has all that topped.
Denon is for sale for around $700 million.
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This is an acceleration of the race to the bottom we all feared.
This has a number of root causes.
The cost of developing software driven microprocessor circuit boards and devices.
The huge production runs required for custom microprocessor chips for unique devices. In other words this modern technology is limiting of choice, because of the production runs required.
The high end loony lobby have a lot to answer for here. By pushing superstition over objective science they have driven up the costs of units made by fine specialist firms like McIntosh. This has not brought any benefit, but prevented attention to sound engineering principles that may have made a difference.
They have made phobic claims against digital technology and solid state devices.
The result has been the production of elitist equipment at great expense and frequently inferior to mass produced equipment.
Because of this we have witnessed the disappearance of well founded specialist firms who were a benchmark for audio standards.
Who is replacing firms such McIntosh and Quad electro acoustics?
The over whelming psychological drive on the part of management of modern corporations to create larger, less innovative and inefficient organizations continues apace.
The thought of McIntosh being owned by either Best Buy or Kenwood fills me with dread, to say nothing of Denon and Marantz.
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Wasn't Kenwood considered a decent mid-fi company many years ago, or am I confusing them with someone else? Either way I'll be sorry to see a brands like Denon and Marantz turn into the next Insignia type brand. Hopefully that won't happen,
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