A strange business model for audio


I purchased a Technic sug700 integrated amp used on here and while it is not perfect (only70 watts aside from class d) I  am enjoying my time with it, as Ricardo would say it looks and sounds marvelous. There were a number of factors I took into consideration including two stellar reviews.
So naturally, I am interested in Panasonic/Technics and what they might be planning. So the buzz is they are getting back in the USA in a big way. Yet when I try to contact either the parent corp. or Technics I either get a nonworking number, nonworking email address, or some useless computer directing me to those nonworking numbers. I also found out if something went wrong with the amp.it  would have to be shipped 2000mi to fla. When I called their dealers none of the locals had any of my amps in inventory and were awaiting their first shipments. I have not run across any ads or other reviews son I guess they are not reaching out to them why not I  wonder,if it was a kef LS50 there would be a dozen reviews. This product line has been out for at least 3 years. It is as if they abandoned the US market or the marketing and distribution  depts. are incompetent. Just saying my experence.

scott22

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Mytek is a very small company.  Michal ran it out of an apartment in NY for many years, handled everything himself.  He's quite bright, which is why Mytek is ahead of many others in product development.  One of the reasons Mytek is affordable is due to far lower operating costs than say, a Panasonic, which has legions of people to feed all over the world.   Panasonic needs to multiply their build cost times 6 at least to stay in business.  Mytek likely marks build cost up by 1.5 to stay in business.  In this way they can deliver a much higher performance product than Panasonic for a much lower price.  Given all that, logic says they are smaller, fewer people, with those people doing more jobs than a big company to keep costs down.   So you want to trash them because they didn't call you back fast enough?    What "behavior" are you are trying to change?   
Lone Mountain