Re:How I discovered my left AirPod was bad
by jdietrich on Sunday March 05, 2017 @03:22AM
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The big-name manufacturers are now lifestyle brands.
Serious players know that if you want a Strat or Tele, you get a better instrument from G&L or Suhr than from Fender. Gibson's reputation is in tatters after years of poor quality control and dubious design decisions. A group of Marshall's technical staff left the company to form Blackstar Amps after Marshall went public.
Most of the big musical instrument brands are going the way of Chrysler and Chevrolet - they trade on an old brand image, but there's little of the original DNA left. It's clearly working in the short-term, but I suspect that these brands will fade away with the Baby Boomers that have a nostalgic attachment to them.
Serious players know that if you want a Strat or Tele, you get a better instrument from G&L or Suhr than from Fender. Gibson's reputation is in tatters after years of poor quality control and dubious design decisions. A group of Marshall's technical staff left the company to form Blackstar Amps after Marshall went public.
Most of the big musical instrument brands are going the way of Chrysler and Chevrolet - they trade on an old brand image, but there's little of the original DNA left. It's clearly working in the short-term, but I suspect that these brands will fade away with the Baby Boomers that have a nostalgic attachment to them.