Good. Masimo was a terrible owner
Harman To Acquire B&W, Denon, Polk And Marantz From Masimo In $350 Million Deal
just saw the above announcement--of particular note is that masimo paid over a billion for the same brands just a few years ago. not sure whether harman will add any value--they've neither hurt nor helped revel or arcam--or what this move indicates about the consumer audio market generally, but this doesn't bode well for the future.
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+1 @mapman When I was much younger I would have loved to have gear from many of the mentioned brands. Now I don't have nary a one. |
Is all china or India now. Most of those brands dont make anything in their home countries and the few that do make only a few of their small quantity highest end products there. The real thing of value in those brands is the car audio. There is millions available when you outfit a 500,000 new cars and Harman is HEAVILY invested in car audio. ATMOS is coming and these cars will have 15, 16, 17 channels with speakers everywhere, including overhead. The small amount of stuff B+W sells to audio dealers is dwarfed by the automotive business. Here in Las Vegas, a purely audio store cannot make it work, they have to do home theater and video to turn any kind of profit. And doesnt Samsung own JBL? Harman sold that off some years ago already. Looks to me like a pure car audio play on the part of Harman. |
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