Forat, Linn9000!!!

[Rob]

----- Original Message -----
From: Augusto Pinoche <augustopinoche at hotmail.com>
To: <cyborg_0 at iquest.net>; <theoms at nettaxi.com>;
<synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Forat, Linn9000!!!


> >Some ppl love it and thats great. I kinda like it, but not for what they
> >are
> >asking.  I get the feeling akai completely dropped the ball when they
> >released it with all the bugs it had and they are doing the same thing
now
> >with some of their newer flagship samplers.
>
> Seams that Akai have given up the EMI market since t
> hey sold the entire EMI R/D department to some dude in England!
>
> >Unfortunately IMHO Akai is now treating the pro music division like they
> >treat their consumer electronics division. "Get it out, be first with
> >product, get their money, THEN worry about the bugs". I test consumer
> >electronics for a living. You should see what akai/nec and some of the
> >other
> >corps try to pass as saleable product. Ugh! ;))
>
> Then tell us, i would for shure want to know so i can
> avoid crappy designs that cost a fortune that some
> economist in a suit are trying to sell.
>
> AP


Well, as of about a week ago, some of our "suits" have started making deals
to procure purchased product *without* it first being evaluated by my dept.
The last time we did this it was a *COMPLETE* disaster and the name brand we
represent has never recovered completely from that bad product floating
around. I mean, they didnt even start the documentation training for the
support center so when ppl called with a problem the ppl at the support
number listed on the box the support ppl didnt even know we had that
product! That made a bad thing even worse.

They decided to go down this road again against all common sense, so,
needless to say, Im looking for a new job to preempt this skullduggery.

Due to legal reasons, I cannot single out names since it *could* cause a
severe problem when we are making deals with vendors. Privately, though, I
could do this.

Rob