Eaw anya!!

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There was a contractor in China that shut it's doors, yes. The company was not EAW per se, but a contractor making Mackie and EAW gear. And it did take them a while to get the supply chain up and running again as a result. But the parts and customer service problems started long before that. My understanding is that in order to make Loud look good on paper to the shareholders, negligible parts inventory were kept in the U.S. and elsewhere. No inventory sitting on shelves makes the books look really good. Parts and inventory were/are made on demand from the Chinese contractor which means a substantial lead time to fill orders. Great for shareholders, bad for customers. I'm guessing that's why EAW moved the manufacturing of the big boy stuff back to the U.S.
 
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Greg Cameron said:
There was a contractor in China that shut it's doors, yes. The company was not EAW per se, but a contractor making Mackie and EAW gear. And it did take them a while to get the supply chain up and running again as a result. But the parts and customer service problems started long before that. My understanding is that in order to make Loud look good on paper to the shareholders, negligible parts inventory were kept in the U.S. and elsewhere. No inventory sitting on shelves makes the books look really good. Parts and inventory were/are made on demand from the Chinese contractor which means a substantial lead time to fill orders. Great for shareholders, bad for customers. I'm guessing that's why EAW moved the manufacturing of the big boy stuff back to the U.S.
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Corporate America-YUCK!

My wife was part of a massive layoff-ie most of the company. Yet the CEO got a 10M bonus for having a profitable quarter. Yeah with money coming in from past sales and not having to pay wages-there are some nice profits.

HOWEVER-in the next quarter-when you have no engineering-sales or people to build product-it gets a bit tough. But the "books" looked good for awhile anyway.

And the CEO retired at the time-AFTER cashing his check of course-----------------So he did not care. The once powerful worldwide company is dead.

It all depends on what you are trying to do-make the books look good or provide long term jobs and take care of customers so they will be future customers.

When the "bean counters" start to mess with solid business practices-bad things happen to customers.

"looking good" and "being good" are often very different things-not just in business.
 
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kristianjohnsen said:
AFAIK Chevy bought Daiwoo (pretty much the crappiest cars that actually make it through the Euro safety norm testing). All Daiwoo-made products are now sold as Chevys here.
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And this has ___???___ to do with the "Nova" myth"?

Nova = "no va" = "no go" to Spanish speakers, according to the myth. In reality a Spanish speaker wouldn't see it that way, and there was no particular problem selling Novas in Mexico.

snopes.com: Nova Don't Go
 
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Dave Barnett said:
And this has ___???___ to do with the "Nova" myth"?

Nova = "no va" = "no go" to Spanish speakers, according to the myth. In reality a Spanish speaker wouldn't see it that way, and there was no particular problem selling Novas in Mexico.

snopes.com: Nova Don't Go
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Hey Mr. Gravediggercrankypants :p

Someone claimed that Nova-story to be a myth about Chevy, and I suggested another story about Chevy that may have been thought to be a myth, also, but in fact seems to be true.

Mitsubishi make a SUV that is sold as Pajero in most markets, but is sold as Shogun in some places, due to Pajero having an unintended meaning in one language. The Honda Fitta was rebranded due to it being unsellable under that name in Scandinavia.
 
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Alan Sledzieski said:
So if I order a eaw product today,will I have it this year or next year?
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Quest Marketing and EAW have been great at handling my needs. My rep is always on top of everything that I need and checks back often to make sure I'm happy.

My customers have almost zero downtime.. and I get parts shipped quickly and immediately.

This is true for anything from KF740 parts to antiquated old ass big bertha drivers.

I don't know where all the hate comes from.. but I'm still a huge fan.
 
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Steve Hurt said:
No va and Nova are 2 completely different things in spanish.

snopes.com: Nova Don't Go

(someone beat me to it. Sorry!)
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I used to be in a Chevy II/Nova car club in SoCal. There was plenty of proud spanish-speaking members of the club that always used to laugh at that.
All our Novas definitely did "go" (on the test&tune nights at Famoso and LACR!)
I've had many but currently working on a '63 Chevy-II station wagon which had the higher-level trim package that was called "Nova".
It wasn't until later that that name was applied to the whole model-line (in '69 I think and when they started to look like what most people consider a "Nova")
 
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Jeff Kenney said:
Quest Marketing and EAW have been great at handling my needs. My rep is always on top of everything that I need and checks back often to make sure I'm happy.

My customers have almost zero downtime.. and I get parts shipped quickly and immediately.

This is true for anything from KF740 parts to antiquated old ass big bertha drivers.

I don't know where all the hate comes from.. but I'm still a huge fan.
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I had a talk with Steve Davis yesterday and he explained to me what happened over the years with Eaw and what they are trying to do. Since Steve has been back in parts I have had excelent service, my rants are directed more towards ''what has happened years ago'', which is the past. Granted it may be hard to get the bad taste out it looks like Eaw is really trying to get back in the game. I wish and hope the best of luck to the company, along with many thanks to Steve for getting me a much needed part.

Sincerely
Alan S.
 
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Alan Sledzieski said:
I had a talk with Steve Davis yesterday and he explained to me what happened over the years with Eaw and what they are trying to do. Since Steve has been back in parts I have had excelent service, my rants are directed more towards ''what has happened years ago'', which is the past. Granted it may be hard to get the bad taste out it looks like Eaw is really trying to get back in the game. I wish and hope the best of luck to the company, along with many thanks to Steve for getting me a much needed part.
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That's good to know. However, it might be a smart move on their part to actually do some PR work to get the message out as well as clearly demonstrate they're committed though forums and such when folks are having issues. Nothing is more impressive than the power of demonstration. Much like the damage control Behringer is working on to overcome past sins, EAW and Loud in general needs to do the same. Otherwise it's going to take a long time to repair their reputation if they're actually putting their money where their mouth is through non-obvious channels.
 
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Anya is chock full of goodies.
Fourteen 35mm aluminum diaphragm with elastomeric surround HF drivers, six mid drivers with radial phase plugs, two 15" and 22 amp channels per box.

I don't expect we'll see these at the local bar anytime soon.
 

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Sorry to bump an old thread. Anyone here have much Anya experience yet? I see Tom Petty was out with it after having used K1 prior and VDosc before that, and the interview with Robert Scovil (FOH) is pretty positive regarding it doing what it claims. Not sure what the uptake has been like, but I'm guessing slow due to the high cost, new-ish concept, and smudging of EAW's reputation via the whole LOUD thing.

BTW, this should be moved to Varsity.
 
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Jeff Babcock said:
Sorry to bump an old thread. Anyone here have much Anya experience yet? I see Tom Petty was out with it after having used K1 prior and VDosc before that, and the interview with Robert Scovil (FOH) is pretty positive regarding it doing what it claims. Not sure what the uptake has been like, but I'm guessing slow due to the high cost, new-ish concept, and smudging of EAW's reputation via the whole LOUD thing.

BTW, this should be moved to Varsity.
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I attended the Tom Petty "soundcheck" in Tulsa a couple months ago. The Anya was impressive. As far a pricing - if you have to ask you can't afford it. ;) At any rate, I walked the entire arena floor, lower bowl and mezzanine, the transition from near to far field was very good and tonality was quite consistent. Likewise the transition from main hang to side hang was very even - the horizontal pattern "edges" seemed consistent from pass band to pass band. The real ear opening experience was standing under the main hang, then walking out into the audience area... for the most part front fills were needed only to pull the image down for the folks up close, not to substitute for main PA coverage. Scovi used a center hang as well, and I'll leave it to him to explain how he used it and (more importantly) how he utilized "Events" in his Venue Profile desk to make panning and routing changes to maximize the benefit of his modified L/C/R system deployment.

Not sure how orders are coming in but my guess is there is only 1 or 2 full sized rigs in the USA right now, and Sound Image has one of them.
 
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Justice C. Bigler said:
Is EAW still a company? I thought they went under after they off shored their production and quality went to shit.
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Color me surprised, but I think EAW is still on the long road to recovering part of their former reputation. Somebody at Sun Capital/LOUD finally figured out that running a professional supplier in a niche industry isn't like making shit for Walmart.

After looking at the mid/high module that is pictured in Art's post, picking it up and examining it carefully, I'm frankly surprised that EAW had the capital to design, prototype and build a full rig's worth of it. It appears they've got a huge amount invested in this rig and I'm pleased to say it's sonically impressive and seemed to do what it was represented to do.

YMMV. I don't think EAW is out of the woodshed yet but this allayed my earlier impression that they were going to wait out their old technology and slip away into private capital obscurity.
 
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