watchnerd
Grand Contributor
Crown is not a maker of artisanal, hand-made, low-volume products. This whole thread is based on a false comparison.
If people want to focus on hand-crafted audio, there are plenty of choices. Hell, I own a Fi Yph phono stage, hand-made (point to point wiring) by the late Don Garber, and a Cornet 3 made Jim Hagerman of Hagermanlabs. They are both idiosyncratic, singular visions of their designers, who built them with their own hands. But their manufacturing output volume makes even tiny Conrad Johnson look like a behemoth.
There is a place for such products in the home audio world and I'm happy we have them. But that has practically nothing to do with Crown / JBL Pro / Harman and their products and business models.
If people want to focus on hand-crafted audio, there are plenty of choices. Hell, I own a Fi Yph phono stage, hand-made (point to point wiring) by the late Don Garber, and a Cornet 3 made Jim Hagerman of Hagermanlabs. They are both idiosyncratic, singular visions of their designers, who built them with their own hands. But their manufacturing output volume makes even tiny Conrad Johnson look like a behemoth.
There is a place for such products in the home audio world and I'm happy we have them. But that has practically nothing to do with Crown / JBL Pro / Harman and their products and business models.