Re: Tuba 45 Build
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:42 pm
We've had that conversation before, and IIRC Bill said he'd design one if we could come up with a couple thousand dollars in pre-orders.
Personally, I think he should design it just because. Even if it's ridiculous and unneeded, there would be no other name out there that could match it.
A long time ago I was in sales. And in the sales training they told a story. I think it was "Lady Kenmore", or something like that. Back in the olden days, Sears Roebuck came out with a refrigerator that was so much larger than what was available at the time, that most salesmen and customers considered it ridiculous. But the company made it mandatory for their salesmen to show and present it to every customer shopping for a refrigerator. As the story goes, their whole line of refrigerators gained a huge market share in the following years, with that "ridiculously large" refrigerator at the top of sales... or something to that effect.
Same goes for auto makers. An over the top performance or luxury car, even though costing more than the average person can afford and offering ridiculously more performance or luxury conveniences than one really needs... adds huge branding value and the whole lineup sells better. The value of association is real and incredibly powerful. No matter how ridiculous, if you have the biggest baddest... the whole product line gets a boost in credibility from mere association.
Paul, in actuality, you would still need a large herd of those to properly represent 16Hz outdoors... which, from what I gather, even the top of the top of the EDM concert audio game (Ex: Claire Brothers, Funktion-One, etc.) don't bother trying to reproduce outdoors.
However, I still like the idea and see great value of having something like that in the product line-up. Without it, I could see doing 8 T60's semi-permanently mounted on a trailer, down firing.
Personally, I think he should design it just because. Even if it's ridiculous and unneeded, there would be no other name out there that could match it.
A long time ago I was in sales. And in the sales training they told a story. I think it was "Lady Kenmore", or something like that. Back in the olden days, Sears Roebuck came out with a refrigerator that was so much larger than what was available at the time, that most salesmen and customers considered it ridiculous. But the company made it mandatory for their salesmen to show and present it to every customer shopping for a refrigerator. As the story goes, their whole line of refrigerators gained a huge market share in the following years, with that "ridiculously large" refrigerator at the top of sales... or something to that effect.
Same goes for auto makers. An over the top performance or luxury car, even though costing more than the average person can afford and offering ridiculously more performance or luxury conveniences than one really needs... adds huge branding value and the whole lineup sells better. The value of association is real and incredibly powerful. No matter how ridiculous, if you have the biggest baddest... the whole product line gets a boost in credibility from mere association.
Paul, in actuality, you would still need a large herd of those to properly represent 16Hz outdoors... which, from what I gather, even the top of the top of the EDM concert audio game (Ex: Claire Brothers, Funktion-One, etc.) don't bother trying to reproduce outdoors.
However, I still like the idea and see great value of having something like that in the product line-up. Without it, I could see doing 8 T60's semi-permanently mounted on a trailer, down firing.
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