Audeze sold to Sony

[MexicanDragon]

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/sony-is-buying-gaming-headphone-maker-audeze/

This should be interesting…

[TMoney]

Woooooooow

[Knuckledragger]

Remember when a certain Kevin Gilmore described the way Sony operates as "wireless drive-by-wire" management?  Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[blessingx]

Peter/@Iron_Dreamer safe?  

[grawk]

hopefully he has stock

[justin]

https://www.headamp.com/blogs/news/sony-buys-audeze

The information they sent to dealers says that the company will remain independent with the same management and they'll continue to develop gaming products for non-Sony platforms

[eggil]

Wow! This is news! I thought Edifier owned part of Audeze. Is this not true?

[robm321]

"gaming headphone maker"

Because if they said audiophile headphone maker, no one would know what the hell they were talking about. 

[Grahame]

14 minutes ago, robm321 said:

"gaming headphone maker"

Because if they said audiophile headphone maker, no one would know what the hell they were talking about. 

It certainly a big enough market to have analysts and paid reports.

https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/gaming-headsets-and-gaming-headphones-market-103280 

The audiophile headphone market?

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Grahame

[robm321]

It is clearly why Sony bought them. Expect them to to change their focus. 

[justin]

9 hours ago, eggil said:

Wow! This is news! I thought Edifier owned part of Audeze. Is this not true?

No, Edifier owns STAX. or did you mean own like as in pwnage?

[aerius]

9 hours ago, robm321 said:

It is clearly why Sony bought them. Expect them to to change their focus. 

 

Damnit.  I hope my LCD-XC doesn't die anytime soon.

[swt61]

Whoa! When was the ban on Canadians (well, one Canadian) lifted? 🤪

[Kung]

Whoa~thats news

[TMoney]

I thought Sony already had a decent headphone lineup. I don’t really get this move.

Great news for Audeze, on the other hand!

I hate to say it, but I wouldn’t want to be getting in to the high end headphone market. At least as an apple user their stuff is so solid and the wireless connection so convenient that more often than not I’ll just put on the air pod max rather than fire up the main headphone rig.

[justin]

Maybe this is how it went down?

[Iron_Dreamer]

I'm safe and good, and as per the official statement "we continue with our mission to deliver best-in-class headphones to recording professionals, audiophiles, and gamers."

 

[HiWire]

Microsoft didn't get rich by writing checks.

Yes, I hope Audeze is able to continue without interference.

Sennheiser is doing fine right now under new ownership, right?

[CherryBomb]

This will be looked back on as bad news. 

[MexicanDragon]

Just now, CherryBomb said:

This will be looked back on as bad news. 

Dude! Where have you been the last 9 years?

[CherryBomb]

2 minutes ago, MexicanDragon said:

Dude! Where have you been the last 9 years?

Lurking from time to time. Just got busy with work. Retired and have time now. Where’d the chat functionality go?

[MexicanDragon]

Understand. Actually though about you the other day for some reason. I'll PM with chat info (Discord.)

[CherryBomb]

2 minutes ago, MexicanDragon said:

Understand. Actually though about you the other day for some reason. I'll PM with chat info (Discord.)

Thx Brent. My experience with American companies owned by Japanese corporations is that success or failure depends largely on whether the parent company allocated the budget for the American subsidiary in yen or dollars. Hope Audeze gets their budget in the stronger currency.  That used to be dollars, but these days the dollar ain’t shit. 

[Oneguy]

What are you talking about? The dollar is swinging strong against the Yen and Yuan and just came off of parity with the Euro and almost parity with the Pound. 

[CherryBomb]

Yes, that was the point I was making. The Internet 🥱. . .