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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Munich High End 2011

Post Subject: Joe Roberts and his Jonathan Weiss illnessPosted by Romy the Cat on: 6/9/2011

jessie.dazzle wrote:
Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.

I kind of thought this way initially but then I change my view. Silbatone is not truly look for developing of credibility, demonstrate any pushy result or get some market share for own products or ideas. If they do then they would not engage those ineffective cult-whores like Joe Roberts. There are plenty of products mover in the industry who actually crate sales and traffic. Joe Roberts and alike are from perspective of global sales are village idiots, the Silbatone owners can’t not be uninformed.

It is highly likely that Silbatone do not look to develop any further opportunity for themselves. I do not blame them. As I heard behind Silbatone stays a wealthy Korean industrialist who has a bobby to spend some money for audio collecting. It is always around those people there is a pack of little fish who use somebody else recourse to play with opportunities, or on case of Joe Roberts: to play with words. Again there is nothing wrong with this, still I do feel that the last Silbatone loudspeaker is a very good scalable configuring for little money and in good marketing hands it might become a very successful model. I looks unfortunately that Silbatone will not be developing this idea further, it is pity…. I will not be surprised if somebody with more objective to become successful would do the same configuration as the last Silbatone’s speaker.

BTW, pay attention that Silbatone did not do anything interesting in loudspeakers. They collect vintage WE that is not indication of own thinking in my book. Their former spear with propagating wave driver was very much foolish and their remade of WE are not interesting and primitive. The new Silbatone that they show off in Munich was actually a first good demonstration of Silbatone own design and in my view a very good thinking. Sure, the BS that Silbatone’s Joe express doe not encourage too much to look at the Silbatone seriously but it is not about people but about design ideas. Joe Roberts is essentially a person of Jonathan Weiss level - it is no surprise that in there he has a full bloom – his taste and class of judgment are unfortunately self-evident. How does it relate to Silbatone? I do not know. I am not in business to promote or demote audio frustrations, I am bystander. Unfortunately Joe is in different business – running mouth on audio subjects to retouch reality. There was time - 20 years back, what he was not “prepaid commercials provider” – he had interests to what he was saying. Now he is dead and all that he do or has interests in audio is searching internet for word “Silbatone” and stick his tang and any hole that mention Silbatone. Funny, his is so superficial that he does not even understand what people are taking about his protégé, very alike to Jonathan Weiss.

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