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Old 27th Nov 2019, 10:29 am   #32
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Default Re: Linn Ikemi CD player

Quad, SME, these are companies who treasure their historic products and think that their quality and continued function reflects well on them.

This throws into sharp relief those firms who cut support to force equipment replacement and basically treat their customers as involuntary blood donors. What is surprising is that some of these firms customers exhibit brand loyalty!

To some extent it's the secret sauce mentality. 'Our products contain magic. You can't see it, but it's there and if anyone else services that box, it'll be gone.' If they let circuit diagrams out, those who could read them would see through the flim-flam. Quad, on the other hand, published diagrams and explanations in Wireless World. They were proud of what they'd done because they'd done something real. People who live in imaginary worlds daren't do that.

Still, mustn't grumble. Things are better than in the past. Previous attitudes to witchcraft had a terrible death-toll. Now it only takes victim's money, not their lives.

David
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