VPI / HARMAN drama

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I don’t know the details here, but it sounds like we won’t be seeing any more VPI made Levinson tables.
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
    Harman International Industries (Samsung) - too big to fail?
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,525
    edited April 2022
    Levinson shows two turntables under their branding:

    https://www.marklevinson.com/products/turntables/

    One is definitely a VPI design that's been out for several years. I don't know about the other but it doesn't look like a VPI as much as the other one. Maybe Harman/Levinson decided to go a different direction and cut ties for some reason.

    Maybe the payback is no replacement parts in future.

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  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,148
    Clipdat wrote: »
    Harman International Industries (Samsung) - too big to fail?

    As a company, maybe. But HARMAN has been slowly killing off a bunch of the pro and luxury brands long before Samsung came into the fold. They want to crank out 5M+ BT speakers and cheap headphones more than they want to produce hifi gear. They do make nice BT based stuff, but it’s no hifi.

    If a product or brand doesn’t carry at a majority of revenue for a brand, or offer immediately synergy with Samsung products, it’s good as dead for future development in my opinion.
    Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
    Digital: Cambridge CXC / Streaming > Cambridge CXN v2
    MastersounD Dueventi > Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo or Arcam rHead > Hifiman HE4XX
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    All of high-end audio, owned by giant conglomerates will be suffering the same fate IMHO...
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    Not a new phenomenon......and Levinson hasn’t been Levinson in years
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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