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As I said it may well be just my impression. Again no acrimony implied, but since you ask,Gambold wrote:> but I would be a bit more careful in dressing that up as if it were an objective truth<
i have no idea what that means. I'm just another poster on this board, as full of sh*t as anyone else here...
To "dress something up as an objective truth" would seem to call for statistics, or survey results, or a verified quote from a Clavia insider...something other than my own yakking.
If you are taking my posts as having the impact or air of objective truths, I suppose I should be flattered. However, I shant be "more careful" about expressing an opinion that may go against the stream. Certainly those opinions here that are fulsome in their praise of all things Nord are never accused of dressing up....
apart from the example I already quoted, countdown like-sounding sentences like:raise a sort of a question mark on my face. Your wish is perfectly understandable, but it's worded almost as an omen with respect to Nord's future. I too wish they released, or at least announced, a new C3(?)D(?), but it's not like they either do it before 2023 or they will rot in their own hardware for the rest of their days. Who am I to know how well they are doing, economically, or to even know what it's like to run a keyboard company in Sweden in the first place?Gambold wrote: Clavia has about a month to get a new Stage or Electro on the market for the holiday season. Preferably both. If not, they will enter 2023 as a maker and seller of vintage keyboards - their own.
There's just something in the wording that feels like it's coming out from a history book, as if it's already been evaluated, judged, researched, established as definitive... and even jazzed up a bit to sound a bit like a novel! One (or at least I) can only wonder where on Earth do you get such data from.Gambold wrote: --Ah, the Italian - once upon a time it was considered one of the best. This one fell out of favor quickly.
--No Grand Lady D! This one was on everyone's fave list for a long time - age has finally taken its toll.
--The elephant in the room - no love for the Velvet. A newer sample that wasn't a hit even when it was first released.
Because these are exactly the kind of things that, as you well say, one should have a good amount of statistical data to base onto. But there's no such data of course. (I would be surprised if Nord themselves tracked how many times something has been downloaded from the library to then base their research and plan their subsequent releases onto.) This is why sometimes your posts have the "air or impact of objective truths", 
hasn't to do with them being optimistic or pessimistic.It's based primarily on the fact that people were buying guitars like gangbusters to learn an instrument during the pandemic.Schorsch wrote:Yes it’s based on the harsh cuts of costs, like 50% payment cuts and maybe also other savings on expenses due to heavily reduced travel activities - once this gets back to normal they might be back in troubleanalogika wrote:The only reason they're doing okay is because the hella lucked out with the Covid pandemic.
Their survival is through no fault of their own.
But of all these new sales Fender had over the pandemic, how many of them are from their premium guitar lines versus their more budget friendly lines? Fender is a much larger company than Nord, with a much larger target marketplace... compared to a similar piano company, Fender would be like the Yamaha or Kawai of electric guitars.analogika wrote:It's based primarily on the fact that people were buying guitars like gangbusters to learn an instrument during the pandemic.Schorsch wrote:Yes it’s based on the harsh cuts of costs, like 50% payment cuts and maybe also other savings on expenses due to heavily reduced travel activities - once this gets back to normal they might be back in troubleanalogika wrote:The only reason they're doing okay is because the hella lucked out with the Covid pandemic.
Their survival is through no fault of their own.
They're sitting on a pile of cash now that will hopefully give them a little leverage.
Gambold wrote:>but it's worded almost as an omen with respect to Nord's future. <
It's very much meant to be an omen with respect to Nord's future. I think the company is in trouble. I think the Big Silence, the crummy customer service, the embarrassment at NAMM, and the continued lack of a new keyboard doesn't indicate anything good for anyone.
Yes, I'm the Cassandra of the board, I know - but I keep waiting to be proven wrong. Hey, I want to buy a Stage. But I'll be damned if I'm going to pony up almost 5K after taxes for a technology going on seven years old. And without any indication of when there might be a new one, me, and I'm sure many others, are looking around elsewhere.