Can't wait for all those McIntosh Bluetooth headphones and speakers at Best Buy for $29.95. Those will definitely be screaming "quality". Maybe they can put a green LED on them for branding purposes. Ugh.
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@howardlee get it while you can and while you know it is "good". I kick myself every time I record concerts, wishing I had bought some AKG-C480B mics when I had the chance... |
@tkrtrb125 just that we’ve seen this movie before, and the ending isn’t pretty. The same thing happened to AKG, the originally Austrian brand that made studio quality microphones. Once they were sold, the brand name recognition was used to market a bunch of cheap headphones, and such being sold at Best Buy now for the clueless masses that think anything slightly better than Apple ear buds is "audiophile". AKG doesn’t even manufacture their AKG-C480B pencil condenser microphones anymore. Gone. For us old geezers, we have to continually check our perceptions of these once venerable companies when we reach for our wallets. Very few of them are anything at all like they were 30 or 40 years ago. They exist in name only. |