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<blockquote data-quote="youdoofus" data-source="post: 8655161" data-attributes="member: 664079">i agree with this. there are so many brands that do what they can to get the most quality out there and not charge an arm and a leg for it, but then there are brands that once did exactly that and were then gobbled up by a corporate bill press designed to squeeze as much money out of each unit as possible, saying the hell with the consequences of ruining a brand. To [USER=563830]@Slo_Ride[/USER] s first point, big companies dont always get big by being awesome, they do it by filling a market need. Look at Kia for instance, they SUCKED for the first 10 years they were in the USA, they STILL sucked for the following 4 or 5 only very recently have they turned to not ******* as a result of people having purchased their garbage product for years. Why did they buy it? Simple economics. People saw a product that met their needs giving very little thought to the long term, same thing is happening in car audio. People see the big k logo and say, &quot;hey, i knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who heard about a dude who would shatter all the windows in his car and he used this brand, and since we are here at walmart, i might as well get myself some killer gear&quot; The companies who buy the used-to-be-good brands know this mentality and they exploit it. Sad thing is that the folks who made these brands awesome in the first place are either losing too much market share and are forced to sell before the entire ship goes down or just decided that they are done with the company and decide to sell to a corporation that doesnt care about the integrity of the brandsorry for the tl:dr</blockquote>

[QUOTE="youdoofus, post: 8655161, member: 664079"] i agree with this. there are so many brands that do what they can to get the most quality out there and not charge an arm and a leg for it, but then there are brands that once did exactly that and were then gobbled up by a corporate bill press designed to squeeze as much money out of each unit as possible, saying the hell with the consequences of ruining a brand. To [USER=563830]@Slo_Ride[/USER] s first point, big companies dont always get big by being awesome, they do it by filling a market need. Look at Kia for instance, they SUCKED for the first 10 years they were in the USA, they STILL sucked for the following 4 or 5 only very recently have they turned to not ******* as a result of people having purchased their garbage product for years. Why did they buy it? Simple economics. People saw a product that met their needs giving very little thought to the long term, same thing is happening in car audio. People see the big k logo and say, "hey, i knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who heard about a dude who would shatter all the windows in his car and he used this brand, and since we are here at walmart, i might as well get myself some killer gear" The companies who buy the used-to-be-good brands know this mentality and they exploit it. Sad thing is that the folks who made these brands awesome in the first place are either losing too much market share and are forced to sell before the entire ship goes down or just decided that they are done with the company and decide to sell to a corporation that doesnt care about the integrity of the brand sorry for the tl:dr [/QUOTE]

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