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Changes Everywhere in Audio
There are major changes afoot in the audio industry, and few are being formally announced by press-releases. I’ll present info that is verified as reliable, and link to sources when...
Neil Young—Yet Again!
Neil Young may be dedicated to communicating with his fan community, but the fragmented, hit-and-miss way in which he does it makes it difficult to assemble a coherent narrative of...
Changes at B&W/Classe
[This is another occasion upon which press-releases cannot be relied, because there aren’t any. I’ll piece together the timeline to the best of my ability, and link to other reports...
Spotify: Bigger User Base, Bigger Losses
[Spotify has not issued a press-release on several recent developments which I feel are important, and of interest to the music and audio worlds. Unlike most Industry News columns, in this instance...
McIntosh Group Adds Co-CEO
[As discussed in Industry News in issues #25 and #26 . there have been a number of changes recently at McIntosh Group, the umbrella group for McIntosh Laboratory, Audio Research, Sonus faber, Sumiko, Wadia, and Pryma....
B & O Sells Czech Factory to Tymphany
Bang & Olufsen completes divestiture of its Czech subsidiary and announces non-cash adjustments to the balance sheet [Full disclosure: I have a lifelong fondness for B&O, and have done a...
No Love For the Shack and Sears Continues in Fr...
Last Chance For Store Closing Deals At Your Neighborhood RadioShack! Come Innovate With Us One Last Time RADIOSHACK CLOSING ITS DOORS AFTER 96 YEARS THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WITH FINAL...
More Upheaval at Sears and Texting Music
Sears Holdings Corporation Chairman and CEO: “We Are Fighting Like Hell”May 11, 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders [This is not a press-release per se, but a slightly-abridged version of a...
Neil Young—Again?
[In last issue’s Industry News, I mentioned that following the decline and perhaps-demise of Pono, Neil Young had come on the scene as vouching for the hi-res streaming technology called OraStream....
hhgregg Shuts Down and Neil Young Returns
hhgregg to Liquidate Assets [Never a big player in audio beyond the HTIB (home theater in a box) segment, Gregg is yet another once-sizable CE chain biting the dust. It...
Schiit Goes B & M; RIAA Releases Music Sales St...
Schiit Reimagines the Company Store (Seriously) [Schiit is a love-it-or-hate-it force in the audio world. Mike Moffat and Jason Stoddard have been around the audio world for a good long while (especially Mike, who’s older than dirt),...
Radio Shack Declares Bankruptcy (Again); Sonos ...
General Wireless Operations Inc. Commences Voluntary Chapter 11 Proceeding [As you can imagine, it’s not good when a press-release reads like a legal document. Radio Shack came out of bankruptcy...
Sound United Acquires D+M; Control 4 Acquires T...
Sound United Announces Acquisition of D+M Group [Who are the heavy hitters in the audio biz today? It could be argued that they’re the PE groups—private equity. We’ve seen McIntosh...
MQA Signs Deal with Universal Music Group; More...
MQA and Universal Music Group to Collaborate on Advancing Hi-Res On-Demand Streaming [MQA was introduced via an AES paper by Bob Stuart and Peter Craven in 2014; the paper had the daunting title...
More Changes at McIntosh Group; CEDIA Show Boug...
[As reported in last issue’s Industry News, Mauro Grange, CEO of the McIntosh Group, departed. Longtime McIntosh President Charlie Randall was named CEO of the group, and Sonus Faber’s CFO was...
CEO Leaves McIntosh Group; Sprint Buys Shares i...
Every issue, we will present major news of the audio industry as we learn of it. Aside from expository text required to make sense of the press-releases, we will refrain from...