Originally Posted by Banfi T.
Grado was once an innovator. Now John - or Grado as a company - thinks that their products are good enough not to develop new ones. Anyway, they are good enough to support the company - for now. But I am sure when the market moves away John will start to make new products since he is responsible for the legacy and the employees (and for his family). Now, this is reaction to the market, not innovation. Guess which behavior moves the world?
Or imagine the situation, when the market changes and the current line will not sell well. John will stop pay for himself again? In my view this is not a responsible behavior, especially not for a man with family.
Sorry.
What the **** are you talking about? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Grado has great products to sell and they will sell tens of thousands each year. They don't need to waste time and money doing years of research and development to come up with a $5000 headphone (that is a 5% improvement) to sell to 100 people. Are today's niche market headphones really better (i.e. more musical) than the HP-1's, AKG's and Stax of yesteryear? Nah..