Running a business is all about marketing... one can have the best product, but with little or poor marketing won't gain much traction. Sad but true.
Also, buyers are sometimes weird. They don't make "logical" decisions when buying something, but "emotional" decisions. Peer pressure is also a big thing I've found out. Product A can be better than Product B, but if Product B is "more popular" (i.e. brand name recognition, exclusivity, hipster and cool factor, or higher price and therefore probably higher quality?), then that's what people will buy.
Also, buyers are sometimes weird. They don't make "logical" decisions when buying something, but "emotional" decisions. Peer pressure is also a big thing I've found out. Product A can be better than Product B, but if Product B is "more popular" (i.e. brand name recognition, exclusivity, hipster and cool factor, or higher price and therefore probably higher quality?), then that's what people will buy.
I thought it did, lol. Whatever that ridiculous one that was festooned with cone tweeters facing bizarre directions.
Earl, I wish the rest of the folks here at least took a look at this view of things.
You just think that if you throw enough words at it you can bend reality, but you wouldn't take that attitude if I was trying to sell you a parachute.
Well, maybe if poor audio devices could actually cause a person's death....
inb4 electrocution.
Sounds like the 601. Their flagship would be the 901. A heavily eq'd 9 FR driver box.
Aha, yep, the 601. I guess I can safely say I've never heard the 901, but somehow I don't think I'm missing much, lol.
My 14yr old god-daughter is broadly the same way.
After staying with me for 10 days this summer holiday, she finally twigged about 'Quality', she now takes her iphone and 'speaker' (the drive unit is 34mm!) to the park but listens from her laptop through the Senn 201's I bought her when at home.
They replaced some 'Lady Gaga / beats / Dre' 'things'.
She finds my 'hifi' fun to use and look at 'But a bit messy' (I find this a bit rich, as her bedrooms some sort of 'war zone' 80% of the time🙄).
She commented that although there was some music I love with an almost dippy passion...... and she Does Not Enjoy, it was a better experience for being a Better Recording.
There's hope yet that people will come round, might take a while......
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What if it's good though.
Elias had done a wonderful experiment with his SSS, Single-Speaker-Stereo. Hmm that reminded me I have to start building mine !
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Then stereolith, etc. perhaps there are many ways to Rome, not just big speakers enthusiasts and DIYers adore 😎
I'd argue that the market this is aimed at is well able to take 'bone shaking bass' with a huge pinch of salt and will probably be quite happy with the product. They're used to marketing hyperbole and on that basis it probably compares well with similar sized devices Sonos and Cambridge Audio.
A friend in her 20s recently bought a Cambridge Audio Bluetooth speaker for her smartphone. It sounded very respectable for its size. In her view, a standard hi if set up was looking old fashioned. She wanted to stream good quality music via her phone without any fuss and listens to a huge range of music, from classical to rock.
A better way to kill the audio market is make it elitist, try and sell folk ridiculously-high priced accessories with no basis in science and act in a condescending manner when the customer doubts his/her ability to hear any difference.
A friend in her 20s recently bought a Cambridge Audio Bluetooth speaker for her smartphone. It sounded very respectable for its size. In her view, a standard hi if set up was looking old fashioned. She wanted to stream good quality music via her phone without any fuss and listens to a huge range of music, from classical to rock.
A better way to kill the audio market is make it elitist, try and sell folk ridiculously-high priced accessories with no basis in science and act in a condescending manner when the customer doubts his/her ability to hear any difference.
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My son listens to good music on his cell phone, or through headphones on his pc.
Around his age, I listened to quality music through crappy stereo.
I was actually surprised that I can appreciate the stuff he listens to, goes to show what a condescending and judgemental AH I've become.
After an hour or two of compressed Mp3s you fell dumb and you think the world shouldn't deserve that
😀😀😀
Me too...
Earl, is right after all. No "class action suit" necessary for unreasonable claims like that but for serious things that can cause injury and death like the wars by the states and governments. The world would live well in peace without some lords.
Really!? I have heard all those tricks. They are not new. Fun to play with but nothing to take seriously.
Bob Adams demonstrated one to me that was dramatic, used two op-amps a pot and a few cheap passives. Carver used the term sonic holography many years ago and I don't remember any claims of fraud even though I think literally applying holography to acoustic waves might have no physical basis.
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