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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 32229" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Up in smoke!This may be inappropriate, but doesn&#039;t the phrase &quot;if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true&quot; ring a bell here? It seems that good business purchase decisions aren&#039;t often made on price, they&#039;re made based on ROI. So why would a business buy a good sounding, crappy speaker, that is known for failing at a gig? Not only is this a bad purchase from the start, but it&#039;s going to significantly harm the reputation of the company providing the speakers that are failing at the show. I guarantee the harm to the reputation is going to be worth far more than the difference between the cost of the Mackie box and something twice as expensive.Just think: buying a box twice as costly as the Mackie (or even 3 times!), is only going to take an additional show or two to recoup, but the stable and growing reputation of the company as a whole is going to be worth far more than that. Why anyone has bothered to buy these Mackie speakers from the beginning has baffled me.It actually makes sense to buy something from ADR Audio, Meyer, Fulcrum, or whoever, because even though they may cost 3 times as much to start, they&#039;re going to be around in 5+ years, still working great, still making you money. If you have to replace the Mackies even once the ROI is gone.PS - I&#039;ve learned this the hard way over many years. This is why most successful sound companies have a business-oriented partner to run the financial side of things. They don&#039;t have the soundgear-acquiring bias that soundguys always seem to have. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (I&#039;m not a businessman, just a guy that has GAS)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 32229, member: 34"] Re: Up in smoke! This may be inappropriate, but doesn't the phrase "if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true" ring a bell here? It seems that good business purchase decisions aren't often made on price, they're made based on ROI. So why would a business buy a good sounding, crappy speaker, that is known for failing at a gig? Not only is this a bad purchase from the start, but it's going to significantly harm the reputation of the company providing the speakers that are failing at the show. I guarantee the harm to the reputation is going to be worth far more than the difference between the cost of the Mackie box and something twice as expensive. Just think: buying a box twice as costly as the Mackie (or even 3 times!), is only going to take an additional show or two to recoup, but the stable and growing reputation of the company as a whole is going to be worth far more than that. Why anyone has bothered to buy these Mackie speakers from the beginning has baffled me. It actually makes sense to buy something from ADR Audio, Meyer, Fulcrum, or whoever, because even though they may cost 3 times as much to start, they're going to be around in 5+ years, still working great, still making you money. If you have to replace the Mackies even once the ROI is gone. PS - I've learned this the hard way over many years. This is why most successful sound companies have a business-oriented partner to run the financial side of things. They don't have the soundgear-acquiring bias that soundguys always seem to have. :) (I'm not a businessman, just a guy that has GAS) [/QUOTE]

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