future hope?

[louped garouv]

last two lines of the following article

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/harman_professional_names_scott_robbins_executive_ vice_president_of_sales/

“I am very excited to take on this challenge and expanded responsibility,” Robbins said today.* “Harman Professional is a unique organization of great people, world-class brands and category-leading technologies and I consider it an opportunity and an honor to lead the sales efforts for Harman Pro and improve the support for customers across all our brands.“Our customers test the thresholds of creative and engineering excellence every day and I am determined to match their creativity and energy with similar commitment.”

[JeffW]

Man, they need to support their legacy home audio stuff. I know they don't give a shit, but just imagine how many of the then top end Ti line is out of spec or out of service because the woofers and tweeters are borked after a few decades. People paid some coin to buy this stuff, and now you can't buy a single friggen part to keep them going.

I don't really give a rat's ass about iPod docks or colored earbuds, but I'd sure like some cone kits and tweeter diaphragms.

[4313B]

Man, they need to support their legacy home audio stuff.Is there any money to be made by the shareholders?


People paid some coin to buy this stuff, and now you can't buy a single friggen part to keep them going.I thought the guy asking us if any of us had any spare 045Be's we could sell him was quite telling...

[badman]

Honestly, there is no hope. The days of the JBL we know and love are over. Still some great stuff being made by great engineers, but without the support system, it's just some cool products in a way too broad product line. JBL used to mean more.