Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!yale-com!leichter From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: KLH anyone?? Message-ID: <1692@yale-com.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 09:45:36 EDT Article-I.D.: yale-com.1692 Posted: Thu Jun 30 09:45:36 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 19:53:10 EDT Lines: 17 You are being a bit unfair to HLK. Advent's big claim to fame, in addition to its excellent speakers, of course, was its cassette deck; Advent INVENTED the quality cassette deck market. Before the Advent, cassettes were for dictation. Similarly, they didn't "attack Sony in the big-screen video market"; they got there first, inventing a product that no one thought there was any market for. Sure enough, there WAS a large market - and, as in the case of the cassette recorder, everyone else jumped in and grabbed as soon as Advent established this fact. Unfortunately, Advent was never large enough to hold onto the markets it created after "the big boys" came in. (If you look at the audio industry, you'll see that a couple of very large companies control most of the production. The exceptions are: Very high-end stuff, and (for some reason) speakers. Advent never went for the "golden-ear" market; they wanted to make good-quality MASS stuff. Everywhere but in the speaker business, they got clobbered. Such is economics...) -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale