What I find particularly sad is that the industry isn't big enough to absorb such behaviour without suffering immense damage to its credibility. We are witnessing the migration of brands that were highly influential back in the 1970's and 80's into the hands of vast, foreign owned conglomerates. The management of these huge structures can't resist imposing their own ideas onto their design teams and what ends up coming out of the sausage machine is mostly tat.

The one saving grace is that many of the designers and ex-managers of these once British owned concerns tend to leave to start their own, small businesses and carry on as usual. As I've mentioned in another thread, it will be a return to those august years of the 70's and 80's as all these new startups begin to re-engage with their old customer base and return us to a British hifi industry driven by small, innovative companies which produce outstanding products, as long as everybody behaves themselves of course...