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[paul bell]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/14/samsung-buy-harman-international-8-billion/93786364/

[Jason Joseph]

Interesting...

[Steve M Smith]

They seem more interested in car audio.  Perhaps Music Group will buy what they don't want.


Steve.

[John Roberts {JR}]

They seem more interested in car audio.  Perhaps Music Group will buy what they don't want.


Steve.

Automobile electronics is a growing business, cars are becoming more electronic every year (not just radios).

JR

PS: Big fish is eaten by a bigger fish.

[Ivan Beaver]

Automobile electronics is a growing business, cars are becoming more electronic every year (not just radios).

JR

PS: Big fish is eaten by a bigger fish.

I bet some of it had to do with the scoreboard market and being able to "fillout the audio" side of things.

Scoreboards and such are HUGE deals these days.

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

I'm ready to place my order for some more JBL Galaxy Array battery powered line array boxes, now including Martin Light and Smoke features at no additional charge.  I'm told their new battery technology has a "fast discharge" mode.

[Chris Hindle]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/14/samsung-buy-harman-international-8-billion/93786364/

From the basic writeup, good for Auto electronics, bad for pro audio.
maybe they'll spin off "our" market........ Another takeover for Herr Berringear ?
Nah, they already have Midas and Turbo. Don't need to bury any other brands.....

Chris.

[veditor78]

I'm going to need to finish out my SRX800 rig quickly it seems. It also finalizes my decision to buy a Danley rig for my next system.

[Dave Pluke]

I thought they were hemorrhaging cash over the Galaxy Note 7 and exploding washing machine debacles.  Guess their pockets are even deeper than that...

Dave

[Daniel Levi]

Maybe they will sell the pro audio side to InMusic brands :-)
At least Music would not be that bad.

[Craig Hauber]

Automobile electronics is a growing business, cars are becoming more electronic every year (not just radios).

JR

PS: Big fish is eaten by a bigger fish.

According to Forbes, car technology is over 70% of Harman's value
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/11/14/samsung-acquires-a-big-slice-of-the-connected-vehicle-space-with-8-billion-acquisition-of-harman/#3c66e6685eff

Its amazing how small our pro-audio slice of the entertainment electronics pie really is!

-did Samsung already have any pro audio under its umbrella or is this it's way of getting into that market now too?

[Steven Barnes]

I thought they were hemorrhaging cash over the Galaxy Note 7 and exploding washing machine debacles.  Guess their pockets are even deeper than that...

Dave

according to sammobile.com they have $69 billion in cash reserves. The Note 7 will definitely hit them in the pocket book but it sounds like they are plenty deep to handle the hit.

[Lyle Williams]

Visions of SRX's catching fire?  :-)

[Tracy Garner]

According to Forbes, car technology is over 70% of Harman's value
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/11/14/samsung-acquires-a-big-slice-of-the-connected-vehicle-space-with-8-billion-acquisition-of-harman/#3c66e6685eff

Its amazing how small our pro-audio slice of the entertainment electronics pie really is!

-did Samsung already have any pro audio under its umbrella or is this it's way of getting into that market now too?

There is a race to equip vehicles with software as a service and the ability to pay for things from inside the car without the use of a phone or other appliance. A couple Samsung competitors are already further along with their development and partnerships. This also includes the public transportation market.

[Ivan Beaver]

Its amazing how small our pro-audio slice of the entertainment electronics pie really is!

I heard once (have no idea if it is true or not-so don't shoot me) that Walmart makes in 1 day what our whole industry makes in a year.

It seems a little bit far to me-but maybe not so much

Walmart sells around 1.3 billion a day based on 365 days a year.

[Ryan McLeod]

I heard once (have no idea if it is true or not-so don't shoot me) that Walmart makes in 1 day what our whole industry makes in a year.

It seems a little bit far to me-but maybe not so much

Walmart sells around 1.3 billion a day based on 365 days a year.

Many years back at a Sennheiser Training Session, very nice & awesome presenter named Volker, mentioned that the worldwide Wireless Microphone market is 4% of the North American potato chip market... that's always stuck with me.

[Craig Leerman]

I was going to buy Harmon but I could not find a lender that would give me a loan with payments for 75,000 years 

[Tim McCulloch]

I was going to buy Harmon but I could not find a lender that would give me a loan with payments for 75,000 years 

It just doesn't seem fair, Craig. 

[Roland Clarke]

Many years back at a Sennheiser Training Session, very nice & awesome presenter named Volker, mentioned that the worldwide Wireless Microphone market is 4% of the North American potato chip market... that's always stuck with me.

I know a reasonably well known industry designer and manufacturer that told me that the only reason that the audio industry was so high tech were the number of "nerdy" guys that just loved music and messing with gear/tech, most of whom could earn a shed load more by just working for tech giants in Silicon Valley.

[Daniel Levi]

I suppose the high tec in pa equipment is also due to technology trickling down, technologies that improve telecoms (I.e. DSP processing) also help the audio industry.
But it can also happen both ways, behringer were forced to discontinue the x-uf card for the x32 because the chip could no longer be manufactured ASDA the chip manufacturer had switched to a smaller micron process. The discontinuation of components was also the reason why the DDX3216 was discontinued.

I still can see parts of the business being sold off, primarily the pro audio side as this is something that they would not only need to dedicate resources to it's an area where they have little to no experience.
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