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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
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 09:45:36 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 19:53:10 EDT
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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
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