How we are managed by manufacturers

Posted by: rupert on 16 June 2015

Hi things that I miss the old amps with the bass and treble now they want us to do it with cables ,Speakers with more bass or treble,I love my old mini disc record of the radio they did not like that sale of C D s dropped so they stopped making them,All to have us shell out more money,If you go in B and Q the only bath room suits you can get are in white it's not what customer wants its what they want to give us.

Posted on: 16 June 2015 by Tony Lockhart
Wouldn't a "bathroom suit" shrink in use?
Posted on: 16 June 2015 by Eloise
Originally Posted by rupert:

Hi things that I miss the old amps with the bass and treble now they want us to do it with cables ,Speakers with more bass or treble,I love my old mini disc record of the radio they did not like that sale of C D s dropped so they stopped making them,All to have us shell out more money,If you go in B and Q the only bath room suits you can get are in white it's not what customer wants its what they want to give us.

Well ... to deal with your points in order ...

 

Naim have never had tone controls on their amplifiers.  Generally they were dropped because the "experts" told us tone controls were bad.

 

Mini-disc was a failure, it was dropped while the sales of CDs were level if not slightly increasing.  Its final death nail was the introduction of MP3 players really.

 

White suites are sold because thats what people want.  If you want coloured suite then go to a specialist who can still source coloured suites.

Posted on: 16 June 2015 by dayjay

There are loads of amplifiers with tone controls on, probably more than are available without tone controls, they just aren't made by Naim.  I'm not so sure that there is any intention to 'tune' the tones of a system with the cables either, I think the intention is to reproduce, as closely as possible what is on the source material without degrading the signal and sound on its way to the speakers.