Yeah, they own Crown, JBL, Levinson, Revel, Infinity, Lexicon, AKG, DBX, Studer... and the hits just keep on coming. And Harman off-shores or out-sources manufacturing for every one of them. Paliwal ain't my kind of guy. Sidney was.
A few years ago I sold off my mint Crown 822. I couldn't get 456 tape for it anymore, and digital sounds *so* much better. But that was a machine...