![]() We refinish and upgrade the then offer them for sale with our home trial and a warranty. We do take any Ohm speaker in trade and give up to the full original selling price as a trade-in value. I don’t think I am ready to go backwards. J.Strohbeen: Being box speakers, the L and C2 suffer from the same problems with imaging and narrow listening “sweet spots” that are eliminated with the Walsh driver. What circumstances led to the halt in production of Ohm’s conventional loudspeakers? As Ohm continues to service them, would a reissue production of these or even the later model CAM 32 and 42 ever be in the cards for the future? While the Walsh omnidirectional speakers are clearly the product that sets Ohm apart from its rivals, the C2 and L speakers were big sellers during their production time. I still have them and have even mixed recording projects with them. J.Seetoo: I am a longtime Ohm speaker fan and obtained a pair of Ohm C2 speakers back in 1978, the year you took over the company. I agreed if he agreed to make less expensive speakers for us to sell under the TDC brand (our private label Transducer Design Corporation). Tech HiFi was a very, very large Rectilinear dealer and Marty wanted us to buy his new Ohm line. Strohbeen: Marty Gersten had founded Ohm when his employer, Rectilinear of the Bronx, declined to license Lincoln Walsh’s patent. How and why did you get involved with Ohm and what led to your taking over the company? Seetoo: While you are not the founder of Ohm, you have successfully manned the helm for over four decades. The Vietnam War was hot at the time and veterans were bringing back Japanese audio products that outperformed the American-made products we could buy so we wrote to the companies in Japan and became early promoters.įive and a half years later, I left MIT without graduating. I offered him a partnership and we made the best decision of our careers: We opened a second store, but hired two store managers and devoted our personal time to growing the business. When I returned, Sandy told me he wanted to do this full time and be the permanent manager. Sandy ran the store for a summer when I went home to Iowa. One of these people was Sandy Ruby, the graduate tutor in my dormitory. Now that I had a store, I wanted to keep it open, so I hired other students to cover most of the time. I only got four people to order but it got me started.Ī few years later, the school received complaints that I was using their tax-free dormitory as an audio store (which I was) and the school forced me to rent a retail space. I quickly realized that if I could get eight orders at 10 percent off I could afford system from the margin. At the time, Boston area dealers sold for list price but New York dealers sold mail order for about 20 percent off. John Strohbeen: Having a good stereo was a high prestige item but low on the list of acceptable expenses for a scholarship student. How did you go from studying engineering at MIT to becoming a retail audio entrepreneur? It was one of the first stereo specialty stores to feature Japanese hi-fi brands like Sony, Pioneer, Teac/Tascam, Kenwood, Technics/Panasonic, Onkyo and Sansui. John Seetoo: I am old enough to remember Tech HiFi, which you founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Strohbeen graciously took the time to take some questions from John Seetoo for Copper. ![]() Under President John Strohbeen, Ohm has sold to over 120,000 customers and continues to innovate in the acoustic engineering industry and sell on a direct marketing basis to audiophile fans around the globe. Utilizing acoustic design concepts from Lincoln Walsh and Neville Thiele, Ohm has consistently created speakers that delivered top notch sound quality and has pioneered engineering milestones, such as the omnidirectional Walsh conical speaker, which continues to this day as their signature product. Nathan’s hot dogs were made famous after starting in Brooklyn’s Coney Island.Īnd since 1972, some of the most unique audiophile loudspeakers have been designed and manufactured by Brooklyn’s own Ohm Acoustics. Nearby is the original Junior’s Cheesecake. Jay-Z was instrumental in bringing the NBA Nets to Barclays Arena in Brooklyn. It is presently the home for numerous celebrities, such as Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Emily Blunt, John Krazinski, Michael Shannon, and Keri Russell. Brooklyn was the location of Ebbets Field, where the legendary Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier playing for the Dodgers. It has some of the most expensive real estate in New York some of it with a higher square dollar per square foot price than in Manhattan. New York City’s Brooklyn is famous for a number of things.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |