Shadow,
Water down our products??? As if. Wouldn't be prudent, not gonna do it.
If anything, all the R/D on mains has helped us appreciate ways we can improve our subwoofers even more. It's not like launching new e-mail services, shopping carts, and website, plus our first 5.1 system and export operations was all that big a deal. Some subwoofer shakeups are due soon too.
In our view, if all companies stopped growing after their first product line was famous, well, you wouldn't have quite a few products you have today. Campbells would just sell chicken soup and then where would we be?
You are quite right that any company can lose its way ... but there's zero danger of that here. The very same guys are behind these speakers as all subs so I can assure you our comittments to the customers like you guys here is stronger than ever.
And t-shirts? We got your t-shirts right HERE
http://svsound.com/products-parts.cfm .
We're pretty confident folks will find our speaker lines (as they roll out) will rival the best in the business at any give price. Audioholics will soon be able to tell you straight up if it's true. They got one of a handful of sets too.
If the SBS-01 speaker packages don't deserve the SVS logo, I'll personally rip them off every fabric grill and bend someone's pocket protector. We have to USE these products in our own homes, if anyone thinks we'd accept anything the most notoriously picky, objective oriented, OEM on the planet would listen to, well, you don't realize we started SVS precisely because we wanted better than the market offered.
Like I said, if Gene and the crew here aren't impressed, we'll be pretty shocked but God knows no one here answers to SVS.
Ron
SVS