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January 29, 2010 6 min read
Hi All! A new category here: Headphone News. Normally, news stories will appear as it happens, but since this is the first post we'll need to play catch up with a couple of bigger stories.
FY 2005: $2,195,477
FY 2006: $2,227,669
FY 2007: $3,160,310
FY 2008: $5,040,968
FY 2009: $8,485,937
Q1 FY 2010: $5,326,305
Q2 FY 2010: $4,917,005On Jan 21, 2010, Sujata "Sue" Sachdeva was indicted on six counts of wire fraud by a grand jury, and is accused of embezzling $31 million and purchasing millions of dollars in furs, purses, shoes, jewelry and airline tickets. If convicted, Sachdeva could face up to 120 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines and restitution. On a personal note, I find this whole story tragic. One of the headphone market's most important and long-lived players now finds itself in peril due to one persons gluttonous and habitual crime. I deeply hope Koss can find their way through this mess and can continue to grace us with their affordable headphone products. We can only hope. Obviously I'll be watching this one; more news as it becomes available.
[caption id="attachment_1335" align="alignleft" width="176" caption="WESC's PICK-UP looks like a cartoon version of the Koss Porta-Pro."]![]() |
Vestalife A recent article at dexiner.com "Fusing Fashion and Design for Breakout Success" highlights and RKS Design effort to produce some cool headphons for Vestalife --- currently a maker of nifty spherical iPod docks. I have to admit, these are some of the coolest looking headphones I've ever seen. Click on the article link above for a look. I hope they do produce them, I'd love to have a listen. |
Monster
[caption id="attachment_1336" align="alignright" width="200" caption="The new Jamz and Lil'Jamz look good, and sound terrific."]![]() |
Sennheiser / Adidas
[caption id="attachment_1346" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The PMX 680 Sports has plenty of swoosh in it! "]![]() |
Let's stay safe, folks.So here's the truth, I've been getting set-up to do the news for a little while, but it was this little pile-up of stories that pushed me over the edge: Folks, if you're listening with headphones, you will loose situational awareness of what's going on around you unless you consciously compensate. In other words: BE CAREFULL, YOU'RE NOT HEARING WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND YOU! Police car collides with pedestrian wearing headphones --- Galesburg.com Pedestrian wearing headphones killed while walking dog -- The Kansas City Star Headphones, Pedestrians, and Railroad Tracks Dont Mix --- injuryboard.com Please, be aware of your surroundings, and listen at reasonable levels. Until the nex news, thanks for listening! |
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