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In the Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?"

Post Subject: OK, now let to diagnose the Vitavox MikePosted by Romy the Cat on: 6/28/2011

jessie.dazzle wrote:
In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.

Oh, sure, Mike is perfectly sincere and this is BTW might be a reason why he does not commit himself to produce those drivers. To restart the production implies some kind of investment into material and labor and then it understandably implies a need to get at least reimbursement if not profit. It is high possible that Mike does not see that his Vitavox business is a good investment of his energy. Let face it, if not my site then it will no publicity for Vitavox drivers out there and what is my site? 10 derange people who already have the S2 drivers and do not need them anymore?

So, the point is that for Mike to start the new production mean to create publicity complain. Advortise and to become a full time industry-involved, mind you to be “involved” with a product that has very limited target market to begin with. So, I very much understand what Mike does. If I solo own the tooling, patents, know-how for Western Electric, Klingfilm of Marconi then I would do the very same - did nothing with them. So, the Vitavox Mike might just sitting on all that Vitavox treasure, waiting what a right moment in his life strikes for him.

I think a good option for Vitavox Mike would be to find some kind of Marketing Whore like Joe Roberts (only contemporary and relevant) who would undertake the task to reincarnate the Vitavox name. Then Mike will not need to humiliate himself to deal with people and let the dirty work to do for dirty people. I know, I know, now Rakesh, will jump in and will “discover” one more autistic evidence in me: the social withdrawal. Still, I would prefer to be called anything only do not deal with foolish audio people who are in their “faith buying” mode.

So, I do not see that what Vitavox Mike does as something that is wrong. The new Vitavox might never rise and if it did then it might keep bleeding for years. The only thingk that I do if I were Mike and if I had an interest to restart the Vitavox wouls be do not come back with new production of drivers but rather with a new production of complete speakers. The complete speakers are much easier to marker and if they have the advantage to use better Vitavox drivers, then it would be good for them.

The Cat

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