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im waiting for the first toilet paper roll dock!!!!!!!   

thats awesome ! ! !

my earlier post was    e r a s e d     since i mentioned a certain political figure, so ill reiterate my thoughts......
krell might be feeling the crunch of slow sales across the board so they are trying to make something mass market
this dilutes the brand
some say that altec, jbl, and bose were saved by ipod docs   yes, mass market stuff, but you see the point

take a look at b&w.  they have a dock:
http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/display.aspx?infid=2466

What you fail to grasp is that there are a ton of people out there that have iPods.

There are also a ton of people that love music and want good sound but have
no interest in becoming audio hobbyists.

Why is it a joke for KRELL to make a product like this? It is made to the same
high standards as the rest of their products, so how does it dilute the brand?

all right,,,, one attack at a time .   youd think i shot a puppy or something
i never said it was a joke    you should read more carefully and not get upset so easily   take your pills and wait an hour before responding next time
it does dilute the brand    its about marketing    you and i both know ipods are not high end   except maybe when used only as a storage device      krell making a dock is like ferrarri making a go cart

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krell might be feeling the crunch of slow sales across the board so they are trying to make something mass market
this dilutes the brand
some say that altec, jbl, and bose were saved by ipod docs   yes, mass market stuff, but you see the point

take a look at b&w.  they have a dock:
http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/display.aspx?infid=2466

There is nothing mass-market about a $4000 iPod dock/amp combo.

the b&w one is $600   is the krell one $4000??????   Really?????
and i have a few ipods too   nothing against them and i even hook them to some good equipment sometimes!!!!!!!!

[Wayner]

Companies like Krell that jump onto the Ipod bandwagon send out 2 messages. One that it's "ME TOO" everybody..we like Ipods and then there is the rest of the product line-up that is anti-ipod, by it's design and nature. How can you have compressed music in one camp (there is debate on the term "loseless") and on the other hand not enough of them there bits to make it sound great. Opposing worlds colliding is what I would call it. Here is the board meeting notes at Krell " We don't want to sound like we're desperate, but we're desperate".

Wayner

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Companies like Krell that jump onto the Ipod bandwagon send out 2 messages. One that it's "ME TOO" everybody..we like Ipods and then there is the rest of the product line-up that is anti-ipod, by it's design and nature. How can you have compressed music in one camp (there is debate on the term "loseless") and on the other hand not enough of them there bits to make it sound great. Opposing worlds colliding is what I would call it. Here is the board meeting notes at Krell " We don't want to sound like we're desperate, but we're desperate".

Wayner

well put !!!!!!!       there was probably a classic downhill ski slope looking profit chart on the wall............

[Wayner]

We had a chain store here in Minnesota that "tried" to sell Krell. They  had display models on the shelf, but when it came to buy a piece, they couldn't give you a "display" model. You'd have to order one and that would take months to get. I doubt they ever sold one piece. They had thousands of dollars stuck in display and couldn't afford to have any stock...at all. Great way to sell stuff. And now this.

Wayner 

[JRace]

I would liken it more to Porsche making Mountain bikes...

The personal digital audio player is hear to stay. This ain't no fad folks, and the fact that B&W and Krell are on board makes this even clearer.

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TONEPUB where you kidding when you didnt get the point the OP was trying to make?