Originally Posted by mikeg
My hope remains that Grado Corporation will take over from Sennheiser, the credit for producing the world's best headphone...
Why? National pride? Bragging rights? Niether of those put food on the table.
Did it ever occur to you that there's a
reason Sony stopped producing the R10 and Sennheiser stopped producing the HE90? Despite your assumptions on the economics of the matter, perhaps the business of selling $3000 limited-run headphones isn't really all that profitable.
Sure, I think it'd be cool if the "HE90 killers" were hand-made right in Brooklyn, but it's not my nights and weekends that would need to be sacrificed, it's John Grado's.
Originally Posted by mikeg
...what John should do is *delegate* this responsibility to someone who is at a point in career where they don't need to devote most of their energy to family, rather that to the job.
You mean he should *hire* someone to take on this responsibility. Do you have
any idea what it takes to research & develop a product like what you're describing?
I assume you have pretty good ears, and you must have a few bucks laying around that you could afford all that gear in your profile...how about
you hire a few engineers and create the world's greatest headphones yourself Mr. Armchair Audio Engineer...you got the "gumption to take on this challenge" and risk
your retirement fund?
Living to please other people is a dangerous, fruitless game. If I had the choice of being Van Gogh or a happy but unknown 18th century portrait painter who supported his family, I'd take the portrait painter gig any day. You say John Grado is too lazy, cowardly, or incompetent to try to "beat the HE90"...I say he's wise enough to know not to bother.