As many of you know, our build times have become quite long. Talking to other manufacturers, it seems like this is an industry-wide situation. Fortunately, our customers have been very understanding. But the time has come to do what we can to address the situation.
One possible solution would be to expand our facilities and add additional employees. But that would require additional investment in equipment and add overhead to our operation. At my age, this is not something I would be comfortable doing.
So here is what we are likely to do...
For many years, we have developed new models and if we thought they were worthy, displayed them on our web site. A number of these designs are not all that profitable, but we kept them in the lineup since they were great speakers and sold at a price anyone could afford. The problem is, a single center channel here or a single pair of low-cost towers there takes time to build and is not all that profitable. So it is probably time to eliminate some models so that we can be more efficient and produce multiple pairs of cabinets at a time for the remaining speakers.
So during the next couple of weeks, expect to see our offerings paired down. I hate to do this as the designs we will eliminate are great designs. But we need to concentrate on efficiency so we can reduce build times.
If there are models you might be interested in, let us know. That will help us evaluate which models to keep.
Thanks,
- Jim