Sound United to Aquire Bowers & Wilkins

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edited June 2020 in 2 Channel Audio
Caught this on Instagram, interesting news.
https://instagram.com/p/CBWxf_1JGZL/embed/

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    Interesting indeed.
    I seem to recall there's been some churn in and near the C-suite @ B&W recently(?).

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    Anybody remember the B&W DM70 speakers?
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,953
    edited June 2020
    Bigger photo of the letter:

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,663
    Maybe, just maybe if the deal goes through SU can make a B&W speaker that sounds good.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    KennethSwauger wrote: »
    Anybody remember the B&W DM70 speakers?

    There was a fellow at an audiokarma get-together in MA a few years back with a pair. They actually weren't as unpleasant to my ears as more modern Bowers and Wilkins loudspeakers have been. I think it was the tweeters. :)

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,448
    Will Bowers get Alexa?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,663
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Will Bowers get Alexa?

    Only if he plays his cards right.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    F1nut wrote: »
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Will Bowers get Alexa?

    Only if he plays his cards right.

    Dinner and a movie, I'd reckon.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    There were quite a few companies that attached electrostatic tweeters to moving coil drivers in those days. Infinity had the 2000A (which I owned) and Servo-Static (my two friends owned) and Janszen of course made add-on electrostatic elements for lots of companies. I never heard the B&W, always wanted to, somewhere in my foggy memory I remember some connection between B&W and Sony. Maybe Sony imported the DM70 into Japan?
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