Technics Officially Dead
Panasonic officially announced that they are discontinuing their Technics division. We’ve heard chatter that this had already occurred within the Japanese concern in January of this year, but now it’s official. Apparently, Panasonic has sold over 3.5 million 1200s to date since its introduction in 1972, but sales have dropped off substantially. In fact, sales of 1200s today only amount to 5 percent of the total sales...
R.I.P. Gibson Digital Guitar
Gibson has pulled the plug, or should we say, Ethernet cable, on their groundbreaking Digital Guitar. We were pretty bullish on the innovative new guitar after interviewing CEO Henry Juszkiewicz just before the product’s launch in 2004, but unfortunately the steep price tag and lack of enthusiasm from the guitar crowd put the final nail in the coffin. Juszkiewicz reveals that some of the technology utilized in developing the...






