Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On 1/19/05 3:09 PM, "An ONymous" <blisstree@...> wrote:

> I'd switch my loyalty to a company that is willing to continue to support
> legacy gear.  Unfortunately, I don't think such a company exists any longer.

Well, Wine Country does a good job supporting Sequential gear - that's kinda
what they do. But they're not making new stuff, at least nothing that I know
of...

As far as the actual "producing new gear" companies go, none of them really
support legacy gear very well. Why provide support for something that is no
longer generating revenue? On a simple business level, spending money just
to keep old customers happy with the idea that a few of them will appreciate
it enough to keep buying your stuff only goes so far before it is no longer
a cost benefit to continue supporting the product.

At least the "big 3" companies (Roland, Yamaha, and Korg) acknowledge the
fact that they made older gear. I remember owning a Kawai K5000S for a
while, and finding more than the minimal reference to it on Kawai's website
was extremely difficult. Technics won't acknowledge that the SX-WSA1 ever
existed. Granted the products were unsuccessful due to the poor marketing
efforts (and ludicrous pricing in Technics case) but the complete disowning
of the product makes me avoid that company.

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Mibrilane