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RIP Boston Acoustics

I picked up a pair of A40's at a yard sale for $1. Refoamed woofers, nice little bookshelf speakers. Gave them to a friend, still miss them.
 
mgosdin said:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/sound-united/ If I'm reading this news article right Sound United bought the D+M group which included Boston Acoustics. Likely with them already owning Polk they really didn't want BA, so once they had time to figure out just what it was they had gotten in the D+M purchase they made a decision to fold BA as being redundant.
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I actually see Polk Audio being next to go.

Maybe someone will purchase the brand and resurrect it. Recent examples include Aiwa (now an American company) and Acoustic Research (AR).
 
My own B/A journey began in 1984 with a pair of A100, followed by A150, then T830 and finally the T1000 which I still have & enjoy to this day. My younger brother also bought a pair of A40 on my recommendation which he enjoyed for a number of years.

Another great name in audio passes into hi fi history.
 
I didn't know Polk was part of the D and M Holding group. Also they were once owners of McIntosh ,Denon,BA, Marantz and some other audio companies. If Polk would go what would take it's place of moderately priced speakers not to mention they back their older vintage monitor lines and the SDA Speaker systems..
 
62caddy said:
My own B/A journey began in 1984 with a pair of A100, followed by A150, then T830 and finally the T1000 which I still have & enjoy to this day. My younger brother also bought a pair of A40 on my recommendation which he enjoyed for a number of years.

Another great name in audio passes into hi fi history.
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Yep. I don't know if it would have mattered in the long run, but I think BA lost their focus and market niche when they got heavily into car audio.
 
I sold Boston home audio along with their car audio line when I first moved to Tulsa in 1990. Both lines were great sounding for the money and the Pro series that ultimately came out was quite good. But, this happens to lots of companies through their lifespan and they won't be the last. Too many other things in the world today for people to spend their discretionary income on other than a 2 channel audio system. Plus, there's nowhere near the brick and mortar stores to go see and hear everything like there was years ago....way before smart phones, etc.
 
I have a pair of HD7s that I think hit way above their weight. I love them for what they are and they sound excellent in a small room.

I love all that old New England stuff (I am a New Englander). I currently own Snell, A/D/S and Boston Acoustic products. I had a pair of Cizeks too. All great stuff and now, sadly, all gone.
 
The 2010-2015 Camaro had a Boston Acoustic stereo but it was made by Visteon. I wonder if BA will live on as a licensed name?

-Geoff
 
I wondered why accessories4less.com had new BA speakers available when they normally deal in closeouts and refurbished.
 
timsclips said:
I wondered why accessories4less.com had new BA speakers available when they normally deal in closeouts and refurbished.
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You are talking about the A-series. Those were the last new line Boston produced. The A-26 bookshelf speaker is a Stereophile Recommended Component.
 
One thing I have noticed is that "brands" don't mean much anymore. They are most often just that a "brand" (i.e. logo) purchased by one holding company after another with no unifying vision much like one would buy and sell securities.

Kind of brings it down to a few specialty houses and of course DIY.
 
mashaffer said:
One thing I have noticed is that "brands" don't mean much anymore. They are most often just that a "brand" (i.e. logo) purchased by one holding company after another with no unifying vision much like one would buy and sell securities.
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^^^^ YUP!!!

Many of the "visionaries" responsible for many of the established "brands" or lines of products bearing their name are either retired, dead, or otherwise no longer directly involved with product development, but the reputation lives on and the "brand" has value in the marketplace. James B Lansing and Paul W Klipsch haven't been with us for decades, but the names live on. Infinity was never really Infinity after Arnie Nudell left to found Genesis, and now he is no longer with us. Amar Bose has been gone for 5 years now, but there is a Bose logo on everything. Bob Carver is still with us, but his name has been bought and sold and put on other people's products for decades. Mark Levinson and Dan D'Agostino are no longer directly involved with the brands they are famous for--and the list goes on and on...

Rarely do these "brands" carry on in the tradition of quality and innovation that they were known for, but they have "market value"--anyone even remotely into audio has heard of JBL, Klipsch, Infinity, Carver, Bose, Levinson and Krell. My laptop has "Dolby Advanced Audio by Harman Kardon"--but it surely has nothing in common with an old Citation amp.
 
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