To my fellow Audio Circle manufacturers:
It is quite an honor to be included among you. You are the "underground elite", the best of the small companies, here by earned merit rather than by advertising dollars.
We have JohnR to thank for creating a merit-based manufacturer's community. This allows us to avoid spending ourselves blind on advertising, and to put our limited resources into offering better products and better value.
To my fellow loudspeaker manufacturers, it is especially an honor to be included among you. Some of you I don't really know yet, but look forward to that happening. Some of you are new friends, and some are old friends (I was a customer of Mike Dzurko going back twenty-five years ago!). While some similarities in our products may be inevitable, I will avoid duplicating what someone else here is already doing. I'll try to do a different enough combination of characteristics that we don't end up fishing in the same little corner of the pond, or if so at least we won't be using the same bait! Also, I won't use exaggerated specs to make my speakers look impossibly good on paper. I notice that none of you do that.
My hope is to join the underground elite loudspeaker manufacturers here in continuing to take marketshare away from the big companies and divide it up between us. A sale by one of you is a "win" for the home team, even if I sat on the bench.
Again, it's an honor to be among you. Feel free to post in my circle, or to send me a message or e-mail, and PLEASE let me know if you see me doing something that doesn't sit right with you.
Duke
audiokinesis at yahoo dot com
