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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 141963" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>Re: Infocomm???</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]154370[/ATTACH]Line arrays are great for driver sales; but so are stadiums, the military, auditoriums, artificial reverb systems, nightclubs, cruise ships, cinema... and let's not forget that the PA systems of yesteryear weren't exactly light on transducers. If you want to make a lot of noise you need a lot of speakers. As a business reporting to stockholders (B&C is publicly traded) we don't care whether line arrays are trendy and/or great or not - as long as whatever is has our transducers in it. As a Sales Guy Who Cares A Lot About Good Audio I don't feel like we're in control at all of industry trends; just doing our best to make sure the folks designing to those trends, or maybe even creating them, consider our technology to be an important part of their design (which goes both ways, many of our most successful technologies emerged from a specific customer request). If I could wag the dog I'd have a much larger expense account, and probably an F458 Speciale. Which I'd happily let you drive.</p><p></p><p>If you want to be cynical, it's subwoofers that have been the best for us recently. One top performance 18" costs 2-4x what one of our flagship compression drivers or full range woofers does, so the demand for extreme LF is probably more responsible for sales figures in the last half-decade than anything else - just from my perspective.</p><p></p><p>If Danley were our customer, and it's not my place to say, I would be very proud to have their business. It's not every day that a new manufacturer springs up who achieves their level of success and does it with so many unconventional designs. But there are a lot of manufacturers I'm proud to have as customers, some of whom also don't make line arrays (or didn't until recently), and some of whom might argue that they invented the line array as we know it today. Those folks are innovating as well, even if they believe that for their customers that innovation must come at least partly in the form of a line array, and some of <em>them</em> are even trying to change our idea of what a line array even is and can do. We don't have a lot of customers doing the same old same old, you don't need the World's Best Transducers™ to do that, necessarily.</p><p></p><p>Visiting manufacturers, and being involved in their vision of the future is by far the best part of the job.. I have gotten to hear and see some really cool technology, often years before it makes it to market - and sometimes it never does. All our customers push the boundaries of audio in one way or another and it doesn't always make sense to try and sell those skunk works projects. If there's a loudspeaker version of the SR71 Blackbird then I have definitely flown in it. That is a privilege that I cannot put a price on.</p><p></p><p>As for the rest, I'm the boss of this website as much as the chairman of the Federal Reserve is in charge of the economy. And Dave Karol is the President or something, I dunno. Anyway, it's you guys who keep it interesting and being interesting is the only reason this place exists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 141963, member: 4"] Re: Infocomm??? [ATTACH=CONFIG]154370.vB5-legacyid=13185[/ATTACH]Line arrays are great for driver sales; but so are stadiums, the military, auditoriums, artificial reverb systems, nightclubs, cruise ships, cinema... and let's not forget that the PA systems of yesteryear weren't exactly light on transducers. If you want to make a lot of noise you need a lot of speakers. As a business reporting to stockholders (B&C is publicly traded) we don't care whether line arrays are trendy and/or great or not - as long as whatever is has our transducers in it. As a Sales Guy Who Cares A Lot About Good Audio I don't feel like we're in control at all of industry trends; just doing our best to make sure the folks designing to those trends, or maybe even creating them, consider our technology to be an important part of their design (which goes both ways, many of our most successful technologies emerged from a specific customer request). If I could wag the dog I'd have a much larger expense account, and probably an F458 Speciale. Which I'd happily let you drive. If you want to be cynical, it's subwoofers that have been the best for us recently. One top performance 18" costs 2-4x what one of our flagship compression drivers or full range woofers does, so the demand for extreme LF is probably more responsible for sales figures in the last half-decade than anything else - just from my perspective. If Danley were our customer, and it's not my place to say, I would be very proud to have their business. It's not every day that a new manufacturer springs up who achieves their level of success and does it with so many unconventional designs. But there are a lot of manufacturers I'm proud to have as customers, some of whom also don't make line arrays (or didn't until recently), and some of whom might argue that they invented the line array as we know it today. Those folks are innovating as well, even if they believe that for their customers that innovation must come at least partly in the form of a line array, and some of [I]them[/I] are even trying to change our idea of what a line array even is and can do. We don't have a lot of customers doing the same old same old, you don't need the World's Best Transducers™ to do that, necessarily. Visiting manufacturers, and being involved in their vision of the future is by far the best part of the job.. I have gotten to hear and see some really cool technology, often years before it makes it to market - and sometimes it never does. All our customers push the boundaries of audio in one way or another and it doesn't always make sense to try and sell those skunk works projects. If there's a loudspeaker version of the SR71 Blackbird then I have definitely flown in it. That is a privilege that I cannot put a price on. As for the rest, I'm the boss of this website as much as the chairman of the Federal Reserve is in charge of the economy. And Dave Karol is the President or something, I dunno. Anyway, it's you guys who keep it interesting and being interesting is the only reason this place exists. [/QUOTE]
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