So Classé has been sold to Sound Unitied (owner of Marantz and Denon amongst others)...
Bowers and Wilkins sell Classé
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Denon and Marantz have fared reasonably well in that group, but Boston Acoustics no longer offers anything close to my VR-M series speakers (15 years and still going as of April in my main system) and are no longer on any of my speaker shopping lists. Time will tell with Classé.- Bottom
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Boston Acoustics no longer offers anything close to my VR-M series speakers (15 years and still going as of April in my main system) and are no longer on any of my speaker shopping lists.Lee
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One also must correlate Classe's sale with Bowers and Wilkins' recent change in ownership:
Bowers & Wilkins, an audio gear brand that has been familiar to millions for decades, is being bought out by EVA Automation, a two-year-old company that has never released a product. Yet the old company's name and CEO will remain. You're not going to hear about a weirder deal today.
Recall the comments at the time of that sale (quoting from the linked article):
"Bowers & Wilkins, an audio gear brand that has been familiar to millions for decades, has been bought out by EVA Automation, a two-year-old company that has never released a product. Yet the old company’s name and CEO will remain. You’re not going to hear about a weirder deal today. EVA Automation is the company founded by Gideon Yu, currently an advisor at Formation 8 , but well known from his involvement in various top-tier funding rounds at major tech companies, from Square to Facebook. The mission at EVA is to “reimagining the audio/video experience by making products that will change how people interact and think about the home.” That’s proving difficult, it seems: EVA has no products to speak of. Solution: buy a company that does!"
Given the stated goal "reimagining the audio/video experience by making products that will change how people interact and think about the home" my guess would be EVA is more interested in the Zeppelin than a rack of Classé.
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Another take: What Really Happened with Classé Audio?
https://hometheaterreview.com/what-r...-classe-audio/
Interesting read. So Classe was a goner before Sound United bought them. It will be interesting to see what they do with positioning now that they have McIntosh and Classe.Lee
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Oops. I was thinking D&M Holdings? What happened to McIntosh?
Edit: I looked it up. I didn't know (obviously) that they sold McIntosh that long ago. Today was officially a success, I learned something. :TLee
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