Should we be surprised these companies have be flooding the market with their overpriced junk for last 50 years….ive spent over a million in audio and make a great deal of mistakes until I woke up….we still STILL HAVE HIGH END MANUFACTURES CHARGING 20K for a preamp and using 10 dollar ALPS GARBAGE POTS
MBL Insolvent
I apologize if someone else has started a thread I missed, but reports indicate that MBL has initiated insolvency proceedings under German law. Not all businesses succeed- its a feature not a bug in a free enterprise system- but hopefully new investors will come in and save the company. This seems to be following the way of Audio Research (fortunately saved) and others-lots of uncertainty surrounding Dartzeel, Krell, etc, which is unfortunate. So many of these manufacturers are small businesses, obviously without huge capital reserves and sometimes without a good succession plan when the founders move on. I hope MBL successfully restructures, it makes great products. I think we all benefit from a healthy, vibrant group at the top end that has the resources to create and innovate. Good luck MBL.
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Granted that the MBL speaker design, from both technical and aesthetic perspectives is unique to say the least. I have a high degree of respect for those individuals and visionaries who pursue a different path in pursuit of their concept. Those same visionaries often are challenged with the business model aspect required to maintain black ink in the books needed to insure business viability. My hope is that the design genius, i.e.intellectual property survives either via MBL resurrecting from insolvency and learning from this challenge or another business entity purchasing the rights to MBL design patents and intellectual properties and expands the business model. |
MBL. One of my most respected systems. MBL system is still my reference and sounds better than any others. It helped me to build my system. Alex/Wavetouch audio Black Beauty - Tomas, Wavetouch audio live recording MBL - $1,000,000 The World's Greatest Systems + United Audio tape decks |
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