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<blockquote data-quote="FoxPro5" data-source="post: 1569432" data-attributes="member: 562649"><p>You mean like Polk right? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif</p><p></p><p>Alpine, like any other company, is driven by sales and is in direct competition with all the other supermarket brands. Therefore, they are primarily interested in marketing to their bread and butter - 16-24 year old males who have a few extra bucks in their pocket who are looking for some cool shit to throw in their rides. They probably spend more money on marketing every month than a company like Alumapro, for example, makes in a whole year.</p><p></p><p>Quality starts to drop as margin starts to shrink. They want to squeeze as many eye catching features [*think cool stuff like MOSFET, BassEngine, iPersonalize] per unit as they can so that you buy it and tell all your friends what a great deal you got because they know that word of mouth advertising is the best form out there!!! Take for example Alpine's '05 amp offerings. They put fans in all the heat sinks, included that cool blue top mounted display, and desigined some 'revoutionary' cooling system to keep the heat out of the internals.</p><p></p><p>Let me tell you someting, one of the first amps I ever owned was the MRV-f340. It was a great little amp with nice sound and features that surved me very well until I sold it for more power. Last summer I picked up the new and improved version of the 340, the MRV-f345. The 345 went in the exact same spot in my car, was hooked up to the exact same speakers and was fed the exact same amount of current and the amp ran so hot I could hardly even touch it!! And the kicker was that the 'revoultionary' cooling system didn't even kick in until it got hot enough to cook a t-bone on it!!</p><p></p><p>So long story short, Alpine is doing what Alpine does best - sell car audio! And what a better place to do it then Best Buy. Do you know how huge Best Buy is? Their corporate headquarters here in Minnesota is like the size of the Pentagon....and they have more buildings scattered around the country, not to mention more than 700 retail stores in the US and Canada.</p><p></p><p>BTW, Alpine is owned by ALPS Electronics of Japan who owns like 80 other companies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FoxPro5, post: 1569432, member: 562649"] You mean like Polk right? [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] Alpine, like any other company, is driven by sales and is in direct competition with all the other supermarket brands. Therefore, they are primarily interested in marketing to their bread and butter - 16-24 year old males who have a few extra bucks in their pocket who are looking for some cool shit to throw in their rides. They probably spend more money on marketing every month than a company like Alumapro, for example, makes in a whole year. Quality starts to drop as margin starts to shrink. They want to squeeze as many eye catching features [*think cool stuff like MOSFET, BassEngine, iPersonalize] per unit as they can so that you buy it and tell all your friends what a great deal you got because they know that word of mouth advertising is the best form out there!!! Take for example Alpine's '05 amp offerings. They put fans in all the heat sinks, included that cool blue top mounted display, and desigined some 'revoutionary' cooling system to keep the heat out of the internals. Let me tell you someting, one of the first amps I ever owned was the MRV-f340. It was a great little amp with nice sound and features that surved me very well until I sold it for more power. Last summer I picked up the new and improved version of the 340, the MRV-f345. The 345 went in the exact same spot in my car, was hooked up to the exact same speakers and was fed the exact same amount of current and the amp ran so hot I could hardly even touch it!! And the kicker was that the 'revoultionary' cooling system didn't even kick in until it got hot enough to cook a t-bone on it!! So long story short, Alpine is doing what Alpine does best - sell car audio! And what a better place to do it then Best Buy. Do you know how huge Best Buy is? Their corporate headquarters here in Minnesota is like the size of the Pentagon....and they have more buildings scattered around the country, not to mention more than 700 retail stores in the US and Canada. BTW, Alpine is owned by ALPS Electronics of Japan who owns like 80 other companies. [/QUOTE]
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