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Bryston Launches Innovative ‘Trade-Up’ Program on Famous 4B Amplifier

June 22, 2020 by Ted 1 Comment

Bryston 4B Cubed amplifier

Here’s a dilemma…imagine you make a product that is so good that it may be your peak achievement. It’s built solidly with great technology, sounds great, and works today…and for many years of tomorrows-to-come. Your engineers forgot to build in “planned obsolescence” where the product will “automatically” require upgrading a few years down the road. In fact, it’s built so well, you put an industry-leading 20-year warranty on it!

How do you get owners – who are, for the most part, blissfully enjoying this product for years and years – to upgrade to the latest version with even newer and better technology? It is a conundrum that Bryston faced…and has now solved…by offering an easy upgrade program for owners of their famous 4B amplifiers.

Learn all about Bryston’s 4B trade-in upgrade program…

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Filed Under: Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Products, Promotions, Sales Tagged With: Bryston, Gary Dayton, trade-in, trade-up

KKR Exits Sonos Investment, Divests Its Last 14M Shares for $180M

June 22, 2020 by Ted 2 Comments

Sonos soundbar and subwoofer

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, KKR Stream Holdings LLC reported that it sold nearly 14 million shares of Sonos, Inc. stock (SONO:NASDAQ). The sale took place on Wednesday (June 17, 2020) and, according to their disclosure filed with the SEC, this sale takes them completely out of Sonos ownership, with zero shares remaining in its portfolio.

Learn more about KKR selling their Sonos stock…

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Filed Under: Financial, News Tagged With: divestiture, KKR, Sonos

Housing Starts Struggle to Regain Their Footing in May

June 18, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Last month, Strata-gee reported on a shocking 30+% drop in residential housing construction, with starts dropping an eye-popping 30.2% in April. That was ultimately revised to a decline of “only” 26.4%…still a massive one month decline. Now in May, we see starts attempting to rebound from those unprecedented drops.

See more on May’s housing starts data…

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Filed Under: Economic Trends, News Tagged With: housing starts, residential construction, residential housing

Facing COVID-19 Fears: Eight Out of Ten Americans Fear a Second Wave

June 18, 2020 by Ted 2 Comments

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A new survey from Ipsos/Axios had lots of interesting details about how Americans are feeling at this unique juncture in time, as states begin to reopen their economy, with a commensurate rise in cases of coronavirus. As many readers may know, this is an area…consumer sentiment…that I try to keep tabs on, as 70% of the U.S. economy is based on consumer sentiment.

And one piece of this research jumped off the page and grabbed me by my throat – 8 out of every 10 Americans worry about a second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

See how consumers feel about COVID-19 now

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Filed Under: Consumer Trends, News, Research, Statistics Tagged With: consumer, consumer sentiment, consumer survey, Coronavirus, COVID-19

B&W Exec James Krakowski Tells Strata-gee, Ignore the ‘Noise,’ It’s All Good

June 18, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

B&W Executive VP James Krakowski

Just last Friday, the big news hit that Sound United had signed a letter of intent (LoI) to acquire respected audio specialty brand Bowers & Wilkins. Strata-gee was one of the first to break the news and from the moment I hit “publish,” Strata-gee web traffic stats made it clear that you all viewed this as big news as well.

That first announcement came from the Sound United camp – and it was pretty terse. As luck would have it, for the last couple of weeks before that news hit, I had already been pursuing an interview with James Krakowski, Bowers & Wilkins’ Executive Vice President, Americas, to follow up on a previous story. Although we had been struggling to find a time to connect, when this news hit, he graciously agreed to make himself immediately available for an interview.

Learn more about what’s going on with B&W now…

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Filed Under: Financial, Management, Manufacturers, Strategy Tagged With: B&W, Bowers & Wilkins, Bowers and Wilkins, James Krakowski, Sound United

In Unusual Saturday Statement, B&W Says, In Effect, We’ll Speak for Ourselves, Thank You

June 13, 2020 by Ted 6 Comments

Just ‘Early Stage Talks’ to ‘Explore Opportunities;’ No Mention of Agreement

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Late in the day yesterday (Friday), Strata-gee told you about an announcement from top multi-brand audio provider Sound United, saying they had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), a leading high-performance, high end audio loudspeaker brand. It was big news that represented another step in a long saga of B&W looking for a new home, after a previous deal with EVA Automation and its CEO Gideon Yu fell completely apart.

Now as I write this today, B&W has released a rare Saturday morning press statement that gives the same news – but from the B&W side of the deal…a statement that seems shaded differently than the Sound United characterization.

Read more on B&W take on the situation with Sound United…

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Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Management, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: B&W, Bowers & Wilkins, Bowers and Wilkins, Sound United

Bowers & Wilkins in Preliminary Agreement to Be Acquired By Sound United

June 12, 2020 by Ted 4 Comments

Sound United logo

In yet another twist in the long and winding saga of Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), it was announced late Friday that the company has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Sound United, the parent company of several audio brands such as Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, HEOS, Classé, and Boston Acoustics.

See more on Sound United acquiring Bowers & Wilkins…

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Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: acquisition, B&W, Boston Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, Bowers and Wilkins, classé, Classe, Definitive Technology, Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Sound United

PS Audio, Direct Marketer of Electronics, Launches a Record Company

June 11, 2020 by Ted 1 Comment

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Boulder, CO-based PS Audio, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketer of higher end audio electronics products, announced this week that they are launching a record company called Octave Records. The company says Octave “is dedicated to preseving the art of high-fidelity recordings and compensating musicians fairly.”

Learn more about PS Audio & Octave Records…

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Filed Under: News, Specialty Tagged With: Don Grusin, Gus Skinas, Octave Records, Paul McGowan, PS Audio

Sugar Daddy Onex Throws Emerald Expositions a Lifeline

June 11, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

Onex logo, majority owner of Emerald

COVID-19, the massive pandemic that changed everything this year, probably infected your business and perhaps made it ill in a way that will take time to recover. But for Emerald Expositions, the national expositions company that owns the CEDIA Expo show and CE Pro – COVID-19 almost killed them.

Now Emerald’s sugar daddy, Onex Corporation, is ready to throw them a lifeline…a $400 million lifeline to be exact.

Learn more about Emerald’s lifeline…

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Filed Under: Financial Tagged With: Emerald, Emerald Expositions, Emerald Expositions Events, Emerald Expositions. Onex, Emerald Holding Inc., Onex, Onex Corporation

A New Epidemic Sweeps Across America…Recession

June 10, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

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I would hope that by now long time Strata-gee readers had already anticipated this day, and now it’s official that this day has come – the U.S. economy is in a recession. It really shouldn’t surprise anyone. However, I know that there are some I’ve spoken with who were expecting a “rubber ball” rebound where – almost magically – everything, including business levels, would bounce back to normal quickly. This seemed to be based more on wishful thinking, or just general optimism, rather than anything factually based.

I suspect some of those folks might be a little surprised to learn that the economy is sliding into recession.

Learn more about our 2020 recession…

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Filed Under: Economic Trends Tagged With: Federal Reserve Board, Jerome Powell, recession

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