Cartridges and old man

Sorry Mordace, would that I could, but such a feat is far beyond my limited abilities.

I know many cases of children continuing the family business these days. So it definitely happens, especially when said business is profitable and looks to continue to be.

A lot of Mom and Pop businesses go under though, that is true. Nobody wants to be on a sinking ship.

I am a case where I could have elected to continue the family business. Sometimes I wish I would have in that it is a very lucrative business with a lot of financial appeal these days. It also involves a lot of hard dirty manual labor.

I chose to go to college though and ended up an engineer. Can't complain. Maybe if I had an interest in running a business years ago, that would have turned out different.

Empirical evidence on Japanese family firms:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1777548

I don't care about Persons, I will go for those carts which push the sonic curtain. A Person is no guarantee to get always one of those, some vary extremely in their sonic abilities (Lyra, Koetsu) even when you will always read how much better the latest design is. Marketing has its own rules and the Fanboys follow. Or, when Designers retire, the name will be continued, even when the product is totally different from his "well known" ones ( Takeda, Ikeda, Transfiguration....)
Sometimes I think, a real outstanding cartridge from someone is mainly based on pure luck because he used some parts which create a 100% unit, his next design is good for nothing for same or even higher price ...

Good points Syntax.
IMO opinion that's why God made the Nagoka MP-500.