Far too early to know how this will play out and after all, Mr. serblin was Sonus Faber and he’s been out for many years. we don’t know anything about this deal, whether it is dilutive or accretive, or what redundancies can be eliminated without having any impact on the engineering of the product. in any acquisition, The purchaser will always look to take out cost. As far as we know, this was a reasonably strong brand financially and distress sales usually end up with the biggest cuts to the core of the business because they are losing money.
I doubt there will be much change at least at the reference end of the SF line. The market for those products is too thin, and the buyers are generally pretty knowledgeable. Any significant reduction in quality would not go unnoticed and would kill their market at the top end. I would expect more bleed over between Bose and SF at the lower end of their offerings. Im not a fan of Bose-owned two Bose products, neither good But in all honesty, these are things that will probably play out for a couple of years. Too early to know whether it will be really good or really bad or, what is most likely, somewhere in between