"Tell the industry what you want" postingboard

Decided to revive an old thread since the vpi classic is such a good deal. I was reflecting on how a competetive product makes a company successful. Would like to hear what new ideas may have sprung up since the economy is weak and now's the time to make changes to remain in business.
I would hate to see another country dominate this industry. Bravo vpi keep up the good work.

I like the way mbl's sound, they seem to be better than other top notch speakers by a margin. To me they make the music sound as though its live. I would like for there to be other speaker brands that approach this level of reproduction. Cannot the mbl's be used as reference speakers.

Rja,
Which industry?? church? board of ed? government? media?
Not intended to start anything. Just a little bitter half-truth.

There is something that occurred to me a while back. When speakers are voiced by the designer they use their ears and analyzers, they place them optimally in the room to get the best possible sound. They tweek the cabinets, crossovers and drivers to get the best possible perfomance. The room is treated optimally, but the floor the speakers sit on plays an important role in the sound produced in that listening room, and every owner of said speaker will not have the same floor. I wonder if the speaker cabinets can be built in such a manner that they are decoupled from the floor? I set mine up this way to not disturb my downstairs neighbor and never compared it to the speaker sitting on the floor, I like the way my system sounds, the floor resonates far less this way, though can't say for certain if this is better. Just a thought.

You will not find that in the above mentioned industries (forgot to mention publishing), I think things are quite a bit better here in audio land, I admit it could be better.