WildWest
Super Member
Let me just ramble here a bit if I may...
Some of you may know of a speaker made by a company called Swan. Diva speakers. Yea, you prolly saw them and the very loooong threads related to them over at the AVS forum. Ask anyone there and these speakers are the best money can buy at the price point. Frankly if you hung around there they would have you believe that no other speaker is even worth owning except them. It really got quite deep. But hey, glad they like them.
Anyway, so along comes Mr. Law Suit and B & W jumps all over everyone including the Diva line for the cabinet top mount exterior tweeter. Well geeeee can't make our speaker anymore so lets just make a new company, new speaker and tell them all it is now the best. In a nutshell that's about all they did.
Sure enough, everyone jumps on the marketing band wagon over there and now the Rocket line of speaker is the very best and nothing can touch it. Personlly I would refuse to be such a sheep. Yea, that Diva line would be running strong still and they all would be standing behind it to this day if B & W didn't step in. Now everyone is trying to pawn off the Diva's they just bought only last year for the untested Rocket line. And untested it is too. They are still changing out the crossovers in it with the Beta testers they have out there.
You bet...The fellow that sells those speakers is truely sharp and I give him all the credit in the world. Some people are just marketing geniuses. I have seen the Rockets first hand and they are a nice speaker. But that is not the point here. I guess I just hate that "blind following" that people will do no matter what ya know? "Diva by Swan! Nothing is better, nothing will be better, they are the best!" "Opps, uhhhh we didn't do our homework and got sued." " No problem. Just slam out another speaker, call it the best and they will follow". Sorry, I was born at night...Just wasn't last night! It all makes me want to... uke:
Some of you may know of a speaker made by a company called Swan. Diva speakers. Yea, you prolly saw them and the very loooong threads related to them over at the AVS forum. Ask anyone there and these speakers are the best money can buy at the price point. Frankly if you hung around there they would have you believe that no other speaker is even worth owning except them. It really got quite deep. But hey, glad they like them.
Anyway, so along comes Mr. Law Suit and B & W jumps all over everyone including the Diva line for the cabinet top mount exterior tweeter. Well geeeee can't make our speaker anymore so lets just make a new company, new speaker and tell them all it is now the best. In a nutshell that's about all they did.
Sure enough, everyone jumps on the marketing band wagon over there and now the Rocket line of speaker is the very best and nothing can touch it. Personlly I would refuse to be such a sheep. Yea, that Diva line would be running strong still and they all would be standing behind it to this day if B & W didn't step in. Now everyone is trying to pawn off the Diva's they just bought only last year for the untested Rocket line. And untested it is too. They are still changing out the crossovers in it with the Beta testers they have out there.
You bet...The fellow that sells those speakers is truely sharp and I give him all the credit in the world. Some people are just marketing geniuses. I have seen the Rockets first hand and they are a nice speaker. But that is not the point here. I guess I just hate that "blind following" that people will do no matter what ya know? "Diva by Swan! Nothing is better, nothing will be better, they are the best!" "Opps, uhhhh we didn't do our homework and got sued." " No problem. Just slam out another speaker, call it the best and they will follow". Sorry, I was born at night...Just wasn't last night! It all makes me want to... uke:
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