I would guess either of the other two would be rotten.

Motorola might have been about as cool as Denon. I know it's a huge, huge company, but the folks that visited us seemed really nice, and seemed also to realise that the way to keep up the flow of cool products was to keep the Empeg culture as it was rather than impose a culture on us. They were also the only bidder to visit Empeg Towers -- the others, including Denon, visited only the US office.

Basically, as soon as only Denon and Motorola were left in the bidding, we knew we were onto a winner whatever happened...

Peter