MBL - Jürgen Reis and Jeremy Bryan Gone


Terrible news and not sure what the future may hold for MBL, but Jürgen Reis and Jeremy Bryan leaving can't be good signs for the brand.

I'm not sure what's going on, but guessing it's possible the new owners may be shifting production to China?

https://www.stereophile.com/content/seismic-shifts-mbl-audio-research

pynkfloydd

It’s hard to read anything positive about this particular news. I was glad the company found a source of capital to continue because their products are important and interesting. Butt I am also aware that when a company gets into financial trouble - something has to change. More money alone doesn’t fix anything. 

 

A Chinese Jewelry manufacturer bought them.  Definitely will be made in China, hopefully with much lower prices.  

Making the Legendary 101 speaker , in China these are all carbon fiber strips for tweeter and. Midrange everything must be done by hand ,

if made in China I would expect prices to drop by 3x anything more then that 

not any would’ve interested. I owned their dac and great Submarine type hatch for the transport , truly top notch quality and speakers sound great when setup properly . 

For what it's worth, in the July/August TAS page 56 Axpona show report Jonathan Valin writes, "all products [MBL] will continue to be handmade by MBL's highly trained staff in its German factory outside Berlin,"