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03-25-2015 09:38 PM |
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Originally Posted by Venere
(Post 686564)
If I may apply an analogy to the auto industry, many modern companies feel the need to compete in every market segment. This leads a company like BMW to design and build a "car" like the X6M even though they may only sell twenty of them in the US and likely lose money on each of them. Similarly, Porsche now has two SUV lines when not that long ago that would have seemed unthinkable. But...its the profits made on the SUVs that allows them to continue to build 911 GT3 RSs. Not everyone can buy a pair of Amati Futuras. The Chameleon will probably sell well in Magnolia to folks who might have bought Polks or MLs. Its the way of modern corporations. Get used to it.
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Understood, but you do not see Ferrari trying to please every possible demographic, taste and budget. Although we may see that soon now that Di Montezemolo quit. I suppose a Ferrari SUV and an "entry level" model are not out of the question anymore. Call me old-fashioned, but I choose not to get used to any of this nonsense. There is a say in my country, which in Spanish reads "el que mucho abarca poco aprieta". Roughly translated, it means: "Jack of all trades, master of none", but it has so much more "feeling" and meaning in its original language...
I was at Magnolia today. They had the Olympica III's connected to a server which ONLY had mp3 files! Not a single FLAC or hi-res file. No other source was available. No CD player, no analog front-end... nothing. I asked the sales person there how many Sonus faber models they had moved since they opened the store here in South FL (at the end of November of last year). The answer was "none".
I'm not really sure we need yet another Polk or Martin Logan or Definitive Tech or B&W competitor. They do their own thing and they do it well. Sonus faber should focus on the same thing, in my opinion (that is, to do THEIR own thing). I used to feel a connection with the brand's values, heritage and principles that went beyond the musical and the financial. Little by little, that respect and admiration is being slowly but irrevocably eroded.
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