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Re: [TowerTalk] 31 mix variability Re: AES SK

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 31 mix variability Re: AES SK
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 09:43:08 -0700
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On Sat,7/9/2016 7:41 AM, jimlux wrote:
There's more than one instance of a company "losing the recipe" even in the same plant, but also when moving manufacturing operations.

Several decades ago, Altec, then a major pro audio company was purchased by a bunch of money-freaks who knew precious little about the biz, but boy did they know how to play with money. In their infinite wisdom, they moved the company, including its loudspeaker manufacturing, from Anaheim to Oklahoma City so that they could sell the company's facilities for their real estate value. Never mind that they were abandoning both their employees and one of the world's largest anechoic chambers, a pretty expensive thing to build.

Unfortunately for those wheeler-dealers, few of their employees were willing to move from CA to OK, so once they got the OK factory going, it was a year before they could build loudspeakers good enough to ship. That move was the beginning of the end of Altec, and not long after, the company NAME was sold to investors, one set of which used it to label cheap junk consumer products built offshore. Another group made an attempt at the pro audio world, but failed because those wheeler-dealers had so badly soiled the company name.

73, Jim K9YC

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