Between the USA tariffs which caused Auralic to suspend sales in the USA and the economic downturn in China which affected luxury goods sales, Auralic had an eighty percent decline in sales in 2024. Combine that with the founder's retirement and no succession plan and the company is a victim of circumstances. Supposedly their intellectual property is for sale for two million. I agree their abandonment of lower priced products made them less flexible and adaptable to changing markets. Their very active owner forum disappeared from their website, then it eventually reappeared at a new server for a few days. Now the new hosting site disappeared yet again a few days ago.

