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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane

Post Subject: Where is the Fane?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/30/2011

Well, I do not care one way or another and I truly have no “concern”. I have my drivers; I think I have some spare – so why would I care about new productions. It is very possible that the new productions will be identical to the old production or even better then old productions. Building some kind of esteem to old production we are under impression that it was good or better but we have no evidences of it. Fane made does of drivers in past and only Studio 8M turned out to be accidently good for Midbass horn applications. I credit myself with this discovery and as I do not remember at that time nether Fane nor anybody else made any implication that Studio 8M is interesting driver. At that time Fane was selling Studio 8M for $72 retail, it menaces that for bulk of 50 driver it would be around $25 per driver.

If Fane feels that their Studio 8M such a great driver and shall be sold as some kind of “unique drivers” then why they stopped to made them? I think instead of abuse people like you Fane’s sales people need to go and sell them. If you willing to volunteer to become their pro-bono sales guy then there is nothing wrong with it if you like such a job title. The point is that Fane IS in business, the do have option to make Studio 8M, why they do not do it? Why they do not do biter drivers then Studio 8M? Do they have problems to source 25 customers to sell 50 drivers? Since they have many their driver installed in many pro systems around the Europe in many guitar amplifiers then 50 drivers is not complicated for them to produce to replenish their repair stock.

To ask individual retail customers to pay a lot of money and to collect buyers for them is not what I would like them to do and I see a lot of voluntarism in the events from your, Rakesh, side. If you have a Honda automobile for instance and you need some kind of plastic cover from your dash board then I do not think that Honda makes you to bring another 5000 customers to make a production run for these parts. If it is the same company then they need to provide support and replacement of installed drivers. They might not have it NOW and them might do them when they need them but you might sign to buy some of those driver along with next normal production or stock replenishment run.

If the sources of the part are available and if the know how is still in the fane hands then where is the stock Studio 8M? This driver had no competitors and was the higher sensitivity among 8”inchers with sun 100Hz resonance and had surprising tone, among other things.

The Cat

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