I LOVE Triad speakers and have loved them for years. I've not been in a position to use them until recently, and then only for one system, though.

This might be a bad moment to be asking the question, however, since the owner just sold the company to Control4.

It's impossible to tell if the new owners will support the brand as well as the guy who started the company and put his life into it. I think we've all seen this kind of ownership transferral result in a lowering of quality.

One thing to think about, though, is that we had reports here of all the Control4 and Triad reps being fired within days of the sale. A lot of people use the word "disruptive" when they mean "new and different." This kind of change looks like it cannot help but be "disruptive" in the old sense, that is, destructive to established ways of doing things, with resulting uncertainty about what's to be.

Who wants to buy product from a company that has just made such drastic changes and who has no track record AT ALL with understanding how to efficiently serve their client base with some new way of doing things? I say give it a year. Sorry, Triad.