JBL Sells Out!

[Structo]

Apparently the hard times have also affected JBL and their speaker manufacturing.

http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/show ... hp?t=27692

[skyboltone]

I wonder if some arrangement can be made like the one Altec pro made with Great Plains or The Heritage guitars with Gibson?

The rebuild components are the hardest loss to swallow. However, Ted Weber left a wonderfull legacy with the California line and the Neo.

Have any of you heard the JBL and the California side by side after break in?

[selloutrr]

Well that's the shits

guess it's time to watch mihow kilan with the kid so I can learn Chinese so I can get tech support when the itechs and vertec die.

Does the USA make anything anymore?

[FYL]

Apparently the hard times have also affected JBL and their speaker manufacturing.

Corporate greed, not hard times.

[FYL]

Does the USA make anything anymore?

Hmmm. Lemme check. Yes, there's a toothpick manufacturer left in Boise, Idaho.

[FYL]

Have any of you heard the JBL and the California side by side after break in?

The Cali are very nice speakers but real JBL's are lightyears ahead.

[selloutrr]

Is it corporate greed or union labor greed? It seems all to often the labor that builds an American product is part of a labor union who drives up the cost of doing business a little more each year. The corporation has to adjust to cover both growth and costs thus they get priced out out of the market and forced to look esle where in order to compete to stay alive.

[selloutrr]

Not to mention property in northridge is $$$$$

[FYL]

Is it corporate greed or union labor greed?

AFAICT, JBL has never been a union stronghold.

[skyboltone]

Is it corporate greed or union labor greed? It seems all to often the labor that builds an American product is part of a labor union who drives up the cost of doing business a little more each year. The corporation has to adjust to cover both growth and costs thus they get priced out out of the market and forced to look esle where in order to compete to stay alive.

Not union labor Sell. Total Union enrollment nowadays is only 5% to 7% of the workforce. They don't drive nothin'. And besides, union labor pension plans drive the markets anyway. We need a gallows at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in NYC.

And really, corporate greed is more about Big Conglomerates don't run small companys well. That's why I hope some smaller group like the Heritage folks or Great Plains audio picks up the pro division at JBL. If they move the division to Mexico I don't think all is lost either. I come from a part of the country where about half of my friends are Mexicans. There's no choice, that's the demographic and has been since I was a kid. You know that from where you are. They'll do a fine job I'm sure.

We need more Mexicans and less Middle Eastern nevermind.........

[Firestorm]

We need a gallows at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in NYC.

Don't forget the one at the corner of Independence Ave. and 1st St. in DC.

[skyboltone]

We need a gallows at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in NYC.

Don't forget the one at the corner of Independence Ave. and 1st St. in DC.

Amen Bro!

[skyboltone]

I don't recall the ribbed cone.

[FYL]

I don't recall the ribbed cone.

The -140 used ribbed cones, the -130 smooth ones.

http://www.jblproservice.com/pdf/Discre ... 0-8-16.pdf

[Sonny ReVerb]

I think if an executive wants a Chinese labor force they should have to move to China to manage that labor force. They don't seem to have any problem paying themselves American wages. Think of how much money these companies would save if they outsourced their management to China.

[Substitute your favorite foreign locale if you don't want to pick on China.]