As some of you know, I've been on vacation for 2 weeks, and should never have done that, aaaaaaaargh.
Anyway, we're slowly catching up with the flood of Stereophile and ongoing orders. This summer I want to have all of our international branches ready to go with either showroom systems or even loaner gear. This will happen, and we're on course to catch up by the end of August. Now, that's also the time line when I want to see every web site up and running. We already added Spain, and will soon add mainland China for Canton, Beijing and Shanghai. this will get us to 10 Odyssey parts.
In addition, we're adding changes for Europe for the EU guidelines to complete the safety measures, as we are already Eu certified for the EM tests.
Next, Travis and I are actually working on revamping the web site. I cleaned it up and updated it this week, but there's a lot more coming an there will be tons and tons of pics and photoalbums.
Another PHENOMENAL news is that as of July 1st, we are the official importer of vandenHul cartridges, and offer the great vdHul retipping service for all and any carts out there. There will be a substantial price reduction for the new units and especially for the retipping service ( $ 200 - 400, depending on the problem, retipped with the vdHul micro line stylus, that's being used in the Colibri and the Symphonic Line RG 8. It's fantastic, I've had dozens done over th past years, and actually have a few carts in stock righ tnow fo cheapo), since the previous importer asked way too much $$$ for it. We'll be much more $$$ and service oriented, you have my word.
There will be some links and an assition to our site as well.
OK, what else ????
Oh ys, we're finally at the braking point with all the price increases for metal, vendors, shipping, dollar exchange rate, etc. etc., that we'll HAVE to raise the pricing as of August 1st. I'm still trying to figure out the exact increase, as I'm waiting to get 1 year quots from my key vendors. Keep in mind that we were able to keep the same cost or even lower it as we did with some of our speakers since Deember 2001. That's 2 1/2 years, which I think is pretty darn good.
Lastly, our digital stuff. We'll be shipping the first units by the end of July, and we stuffed some black gates and othr goodies in it to spruce it up. It worked, lol. The previously posted $ is confirmed and stays the same even with the production increases. $ 1,500 for the 1000 W. version.
The sub - name of our digital line is:
Odyssey
Emotional fusion digital.
Anyway, I'll keep you guys posted,
Klaus
