No God No! Say it Ain’t So!

@thecarpathian

+1 (I agree, he has NO idea.)

Many people just don’t understand how holding companies and combination of brands work. There at least as many successful combinations, enabling niche brands to spend more on R&D and marketing then there are bad stories.

Everyone just needs to calm down and see how this plays out.

Bose is a well respected player in the professional and consumer audio world and is SO much better than Clarion to take the reigns here. I have trust that they will help maintain (or build) the McIntosh brand and keep the quality levels up.

It’s a sad day.  It’s as absurd as appointing Dr. Oz to an important Cabinet position.

Oh wait, did those two things happen in the same week?

I was attempting to explain the significance of this event to my wife.  I told her that it was like KMart acquiring Norman Marcus