I'm also not sure to be happy or sad. But my experience from 25 years in consumer electronics tends to move me in the not happy direction. Anyone remember Infinity before Harmon took over or JBL, or Mark Levinson?? and Harmon is an electronics company. Many examples of high'er end companies that were bought out by bigger companies seeing the quality and uniqueness of their product go away...I can also understand the financial reasons Sean and Co. would sell.. Hell we all have families.. I've been really thinking of buying a Transporter.. so do I wait, and maybe it ain't the same product it is in a month or 3? Does a new better one come out? Does a high end company introduce one? Does the high end industry now sign a collect breath since they now don't have to compete with Slim Devices and a $2K killer player? Do the bean counters kill the high performance Transporter or dumb it down? I really wish that if SD had wanted to sell, for what ever reason that they had aligned themselves with a major audio company, Meridian, B&W/Rotal, Krell, CJ, ARC, Sumiko.. I think that maybe the upfront $$ might not have been as good, but that long term the product would have gotten better. Of course when Mike Valentine sold/ left Escort he started Valentine One.. I wonder how long Sean's Non-Compete clause is?? Cause Sean, guys like you always want to build killer products.. a couple of years of smashing your head against the corporate bean counters will have you back in the thick of it!
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