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I heard back from George:
From: [email protected] Add to Address Book
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:58:14 EST
Subject: Re: talk
To: [email protected]
Hey Mike Thanks for answering me back. Nuance is George Baker, I am nuance and I am trying to achieve one thing, which is to sell the most accurate high performance, high output, dynamic, real speaker ever made. My target audience is the people that do not have plans to have high realism audio in their life, for what ever reason. I already spent 25 years selling and designing some of the top speakers from Canada to the regular audio market and about 15 years ago I decided there was a very large group of people that didn t realize how much fun great audio could be in their life. The easiest thing to do was to develop a name brand line and get it doing 10 million dollars per year, using advertising, using the press, which I have had the pleasure of meeting most of them, having a half million dollar advertising budget, and another half million dollar show budget. Done that been there, it got boring. I hated making competing me too products. I wanted the freedom to sell something close to what Bill Gates would have to the regular non audiophile fellow. I found it exciting to know that in Canada Nuance outsells every speaker company put together in sales of speakers over 2000 dollars a pair. If I could I would only make speakers between 2k and 10k, because I can put everything possible into them. We are not trying to compete with any speaker company, we just want to sell incredible sound Ferraris to a guy who thinks his 4 year old mini van is OK. I know that we have changed the lives of 1000s of people. I am sorry that the over exuberant sales approach of some salespeople has put you off. I would like to change that. Do you realize that one person in a hundred comes in to a store clerk asking about speakers, therefore there is no market for speakers, therefore companies like A and B Sound get in trouble because no one goes near their audio department, and the highest speaker sold by Future Shop or Best Buy is around 600 dollars. How great a reproducer of sound can we build for 600 retail when those big retailers get 65 percent off, with programs and the manufacture needs to spend 20 percent on advertising and reviews, what s left for the engineer to work with a product cost of 35 dollars each. No wonder almost all Canadian manufacturing of speakers, Canadian name brand speakers, have had to get it all made in China. We are one of very few left, still making it all in Toronto at our factory, and we refuse to move our product to anywhere outside of our own people and our own plants. This week one of my speaker designers and I created two new towers that will sell for around 3500 and around 5000. They are going to be stupendous and all our salespeople are getting so excited about selling 1000 s of them. No other company is doing that. I am proud of the product we make, and every day I try my best to make something better. Most people in my position would be trying to make a new model make more money. I haven t been paid a salary for a few months, our current models are going out to the stores very close to cost, to help them put our best products out the door. Every dealer is not allowed to mark up Nuance past a small percentage as compared to speaker markups. Every dealer realizes his profit on Nuance is slim but the created and discovered sales can be very large. I believe Nuance is the smallest mark up speaker product, from parts and labor cost to customer price. If you really cared to discover the truth about me and my product, you would rewrite the mistakes on your anonymous site. We have a new chat site up and will have a new web site up soon. Hopefully there are some things that I will show and tell about which will bring Nuance into the light. I would love to run some sexy ads showing off our big powered towers. I would also love to have a fancy brochure. I started in the speaker industry in 1965 as a hobbyist, then 1970 retail, then 1971 to 1975 distributor for many imported name brands, then 1975 I started A.P.I. Energy ,and Burhoe Acoustics , and Sound Dynamics. When I left there in 1988 or so, due to the competitive nature of this business the good people of API took my name out of reality and even rewrote who started the company and when. I felt like I was a past head of Russia being written out of the new history books. Anyway undaunted I carried on to start Nuance to follow and build our own reality. A reality where everyone has a spectacular sound recreation system in their lives, all 6 billion of us. I can t help think that this would cause less fighting and more loving on the planet. I challenge you to find out the passion that drives us at Nuance. It s not about the money it would be easier to make a few bucks selling China made Canadian speakers to all the chains, for about 300 a pair, Thanks for reading this. George Baker ceo and founder Nuance.
From: [email protected] Add to Address Book
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:58:14 EST
Subject: Re: talk
To: [email protected]
Hey Mike Thanks for answering me back. Nuance is George Baker, I am nuance and I am trying to achieve one thing, which is to sell the most accurate high performance, high output, dynamic, real speaker ever made. My target audience is the people that do not have plans to have high realism audio in their life, for what ever reason. I already spent 25 years selling and designing some of the top speakers from Canada to the regular audio market and about 15 years ago I decided there was a very large group of people that didn t realize how much fun great audio could be in their life. The easiest thing to do was to develop a name brand line and get it doing 10 million dollars per year, using advertising, using the press, which I have had the pleasure of meeting most of them, having a half million dollar advertising budget, and another half million dollar show budget. Done that been there, it got boring. I hated making competing me too products. I wanted the freedom to sell something close to what Bill Gates would have to the regular non audiophile fellow. I found it exciting to know that in Canada Nuance outsells every speaker company put together in sales of speakers over 2000 dollars a pair. If I could I would only make speakers between 2k and 10k, because I can put everything possible into them. We are not trying to compete with any speaker company, we just want to sell incredible sound Ferraris to a guy who thinks his 4 year old mini van is OK. I know that we have changed the lives of 1000s of people. I am sorry that the over exuberant sales approach of some salespeople has put you off. I would like to change that. Do you realize that one person in a hundred comes in to a store clerk asking about speakers, therefore there is no market for speakers, therefore companies like A and B Sound get in trouble because no one goes near their audio department, and the highest speaker sold by Future Shop or Best Buy is around 600 dollars. How great a reproducer of sound can we build for 600 retail when those big retailers get 65 percent off, with programs and the manufacture needs to spend 20 percent on advertising and reviews, what s left for the engineer to work with a product cost of 35 dollars each. No wonder almost all Canadian manufacturing of speakers, Canadian name brand speakers, have had to get it all made in China. We are one of very few left, still making it all in Toronto at our factory, and we refuse to move our product to anywhere outside of our own people and our own plants. This week one of my speaker designers and I created two new towers that will sell for around 3500 and around 5000. They are going to be stupendous and all our salespeople are getting so excited about selling 1000 s of them. No other company is doing that. I am proud of the product we make, and every day I try my best to make something better. Most people in my position would be trying to make a new model make more money. I haven t been paid a salary for a few months, our current models are going out to the stores very close to cost, to help them put our best products out the door. Every dealer is not allowed to mark up Nuance past a small percentage as compared to speaker markups. Every dealer realizes his profit on Nuance is slim but the created and discovered sales can be very large. I believe Nuance is the smallest mark up speaker product, from parts and labor cost to customer price. If you really cared to discover the truth about me and my product, you would rewrite the mistakes on your anonymous site. We have a new chat site up and will have a new web site up soon. Hopefully there are some things that I will show and tell about which will bring Nuance into the light. I would love to run some sexy ads showing off our big powered towers. I would also love to have a fancy brochure. I started in the speaker industry in 1965 as a hobbyist, then 1970 retail, then 1971 to 1975 distributor for many imported name brands, then 1975 I started A.P.I. Energy ,and Burhoe Acoustics , and Sound Dynamics. When I left there in 1988 or so, due to the competitive nature of this business the good people of API took my name out of reality and even rewrote who started the company and when. I felt like I was a past head of Russia being written out of the new history books. Anyway undaunted I carried on to start Nuance to follow and build our own reality. A reality where everyone has a spectacular sound recreation system in their lives, all 6 billion of us. I can t help think that this would cause less fighting and more loving on the planet. I challenge you to find out the passion that drives us at Nuance. It s not about the money it would be easier to make a few bucks selling China made Canadian speakers to all the chains, for about 300 a pair, Thanks for reading this. George Baker ceo and founder Nuance.
