MartinLogan Dynamo 500 10" Stereo/Home Theater Subwoofer (pre-order)
$199.99 with code EMCKBJA28

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MartinLogan Motion 10 Stereo or Home Theater Front/Surround Speaker (pre-order)
$199.99 with code EMCKBJA22

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MartinLogan Motion 12 Home Theater Front/Surround Speaker (pre-order)
$299.99 with code EMCKBJA23

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all with Free shipping

Much less than my dealer cost...

WOW!

those 12's sound pretty good, in my experience.

i know, i was just priced shopped on those exactly. Customers ordered from there and then put up a stink when i raised my labor rates. Figures, the one thing i put a model number on, of course with speakers you kind of have too.

I do Honestly get the feeling that ML has one foot in the grave and the other on a very very slippery banana peel :(

I feel the same way. Shame because they can still make some quality products when they want to. I don't understand why every company tries to pander to the lowest common denominator.

To quote John Lydon, "money...effective, absurd."

I believe ML is still owned by Paradigm. I am surprised they have not been pulled from online and $V%D. No clue what the plan is there.

(my rant, crossposted from the thread on IP)

The same thing happens every time there is an economic boom followed by a downturn.

Some stupid ass conglomerates buy every company in sight at top dollar because the sales numbers are strong, then go into panic mode when sales decline because there is no contingency plan when double-digit % annual growth is not achieved every single year.

Wall Street dipshits on a get-rich-quick mission bought out the privately held operations who employed our country (and provided us with profitable value-added products to sell).

Now they have to move production and support to India and China (diminishing the value-add), and open their sales to include mega retail (diminishing the profitability).

These are moves of desperation to keep the few remaining shareholders from jumping ship and tanking the stock value even further.

Someday soon these once-proud brand names will be prominently displayed on crap at flea markets.

Progress!
Open Market!
Supply and Demand!

How about a slightly more cynical view. The conglomerates wait for a downturn, then as soon as some of the smaller high-end brands have cash flow problems, they come in with offer in hand and the small companies have no choice but to accept.

But all the conglomerates want is the brand name and they do their best to whore it out to any online or big box store that will have them. Once the smart shoppers realize that the product they bought at Best Buy is not the same product they expected and stop buying, the product is moved to wholesale clubs where a whole new set of suckers is ready to pounce.

Then it ends up at a flea market. :)

What can we do about it? Dump them and use a product that is still pouring profit into R&D and producing modern/better products and not just raping the company so the CEO can cash out and build a yacht.

pick your lines wisely.....this is NO surprise.

ITS AT AV#D FOR GODS SAKE.

Think people.

+1 to this. You should have seen the tears welling in the eyes of one of my customers when I told him if he wanted to buy B&W speakers his best bet was to check out a local Best Buy