Xavyer: "It's funny how you can think all these lofty things about 'voting with your dollars' (meaning, support those suppliers who provide the best product or service), and it doesn't seem to do any good."

Xavyer,

I'd agree with you that the acquisition by Rio/SB was the "beginning of the end" in some sense. I don't completely rule out the possibility, however, that Rio/SB may produce an OEM product in the future based on Empeg code that I may want to buy. I'm skeptical, but will keep my eyes open.

I also appreciate your point about supporting superior suppliers -- voting with our dollars. It's just unfortunate that the number of folks voting with dollars didn't manage to exceed 1000. I still feel in my gut that Rio/SB screwed the pooch when it came to promotion and advertising (to increase that 1000 to ???), but in a period of great economic difficulty for companies like SB (did they overextend like so many other companies?) I have a hard time judging.

Jim