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AVPro Global Launches Expert Advisory Board; Names Wally Whinna as 1st Member

October 8, 2025 by Ted 1 Comment

AVPro Global Holdings logo

Here is a really smart idea: AVPro Global, one of the industry’s fastest-growing manufacturers of a wide range of products designed specifically for the residential and commercial custom integration spaces, is creating an “Expert Advisory Board.” Why is that smart? Because a well-selected advisory board can be a great sounding board (no pun intended) on strategies and tactics, and an almost limitless source of fresh ideas and perspectives for driving above-average growth.

The first expert appointed to this board is well-known industry executive Wally Whinna, formerly of ADI/Snap One, AVAD, Tandem Marketing, and Allnet.

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Filed Under: Feature, Management, Manufacturers, News, People, Strategy Tagged With: AVPro Global, Jeff Murray, Wally Whinna

At CEDIA Expo 2025, Attendance Continued Its Multi-Year Decline

October 1, 2025 by Ted 11 Comments

A sparse crowd gathered for the CEDIA Town Hall at CEDIA Expo 2025

Emerald Expositions, part of Emerald Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EEX) and owners of CEDIA Expo and CEPro, has reported that final attendance at CEDIA Expo 2025, “the premier event for the custom systems integration industry,” establishes it was yet another year of declining participation. This rather sobering news is consistent with feedback I received from several exhibitors at the event this year – almost all of whom told me that attendance was noticeably off, with several saying it was significantly down from last year.

Now we know with certainty, even with Emerald’s attempt to hide the real attendance figures, that attendance at Expo 2025 was in fact appreciably below attendance at Expo 2024 last year.

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, Industry Trends, News, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: attendance, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, Jason McGraw

Masimo Completes Sale of Sound United to Harman International

September 23, 2025 by Ted 2 Comments

Sound United presentation at CEDIA Expo 2025
Sound United presentation to media at CEDIA Expo 2025 [Click to enlarge]

The long-awaited closing of Masimo Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MASI) sale of Sound United (formerly Masimo Consumer) to Harman International, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has been formally completed. Both parties of the transaction put out their own separate announcements, with Masimo’s version quite short and perfunctory, while Harman’s gave little more than an inkling of what is to become of Sound United.

Learn all about the completion of the sale of Sound United…

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Filed Under: Feature, Financial, Management, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: Harman, Masimo, Sound United

8K Association Goes Big at CEDIA Expo 2025 with Exhibits, Presentations & Panels

August 21, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

8K Association at CEDIA Expo 2025

The 8K Association (8KA) is pulling out all of the stops to brightly project awareness of the growing 8K resolution ecosystem to all corners of the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, during CEDIA Expo 2025 running from September 4-6, 2025. To do this, the association will employ a multi-faceted presentation and communication strategy that promotes the entire ecosystem from content creation and production to distribution, integration and viewing in the home.

Learn more about the 8K Association’s presentations at CEDIA Expo

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: 8K Association, 8KA

Masimo Reports Fiscal 2025 Q2 Results: Revenues +8%, Op Profits +54%, EPS +78%; So Why Did Its Stock Drop 12%?

August 8, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

From the Masimo website

Sound United Sale to Harman is Still on Track for Year-End

After markets closed on Tuesday, Masimo Corporation [Nasdaq: MASI] released its results for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2025, and to my eyes, they looked really solid. Revenues grew by a respectable 8%, operating profits grew by 54%(!), operating margins improved by 520 basis points (that’s 5.2% more than last year), and earnings per share shot up an eye-popping 78%(!) What’s not to like?

Yet on Wednesday, the first trading day after these results were announced, the value of MASI shares actually dropped 12%! What?!?!

See more on the Q2 Masimo results and the market reaction…

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Filed Under: Feature, Financial, Management, Manufacturers, Strategy Tagged With: Harman, Katie Szyman, Masimo, Sound United

Tesla Signs $16.5 Billion AI Chip Supply Pact with Samsung

July 31, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

Tesla vehicle at an industry event. Future Tesla vehicles will use Samsung AI chips

Enigmatic, mercurial CEO Elon Musk confirmed to Reuters news that Tesla has signed a deal with Samsung Electronics to manufacture and supply Tesla’s next-generation AI chips, the AI6. The contract is said to be valued at $16.5 billion.

Learn more on Samsung supplying the new Tesla AI chip

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Filed Under: Feature, Financial, News, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: AI, Elon Musk, Samsung, Tesla

Sonos Board Decides to Upgrade Interim CEO Tom Conrad to Official CEO

July 23, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

Sonos permanent CEO Tom Conrad

Sonos, Inc. [Nasdaq: SONO] announced today that its Board of Directors has decided to appoint Tom Conrad – current Interim CEO – as the new official Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Conrad, who was a member of the Board of Directors when it chose to dismiss previous CEO Patrick Spence, was named as the Interim CEO back in January.

Learn more about Sonos making Tom Conrad its CEO

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Filed Under: Feature, Management, Manufacturers, News, People, Strategy Tagged With: Julius Genachowski, Patrick Spence, Sonos, Tom Conrad

Premium Audio Company and Pioneer Corp Formally End Partnership

July 17, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

On Thursday, Premium Audio Company (PAC), a division of Voxx, which itself is now part of Gentex Corp., today formally acknowledged what has long been rumored: that it has lost its licensing deal with Pioneer Corporation for the rights to the Pioneer and Elite brands. The announcement portrays the decision as a “mutual” one that concludes “a successful multi-year collaboration.”

See more on PAC losing access to Pioneer & Elite brands

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Filed Under: Brands, Management, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: Elite, HECO, Integra, Klipsch, Magnat, Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite, Premium Audio Company

A Tough Task, A Turbulent Time; Yet Manley Labs Owner Overcomes All to Achieve the American Dream

July 17, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

Manley Labs President EveAnna Manley

She was a fresh-faced, 20-something college student in the late 1980s when, on a brief pause from her university studies, EveAnna Dauray took a job on the production floor at Vacuum Tube Logic, a high-end audio company in California run by David Manley and his son Luke. There is no way she could have known it at the time, but she was about to embark on a crazy, exciting, at times painful, though always rewarding, epic journey. It was a journey that spanned some four decades and would see her rise from an entry-level production floor worker to owner and President of Manley Laboratories, Inc. (a company split off and independent from VTL), which she recently successfully sold to industry entrepreneur Dirk Ulrich…achieving the American Dream by providing her with the resources and the freedom to pursue with passion the next exciting phase of her life’s journey.

See more on the remarkable story of EveAnna Manley and the acquisition of Manley Labs…

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Filed Under: Feature, Financial, Strategy Tagged With: EveAnna Manley, Manley Labs, retirement

Josh.ai Announces It’s Partnering with SoCal Rep Firm Unified Representatives

June 26, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

Josh.ai has partnered with Unified Representatives

Josh.ai (Josh) expands its market presence by partnering with Southern California-based manufacturer representative firm Unified Representatives. Josh calls Unified Representatives “a premier manufacturers’ rep firm” who will support what it says is its “rapidly growing dealer base” in Southern California.

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Filed Under: Management, Manufacturers, News, People, Sales Reps, Strategy Tagged With: Doug Cuneo, Josh.ai, Ryan Conway, Unified Representatives

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