He visto en internet algo curioso respecto a kenwood, un fabricante de electrónica de consumo de gama media - alta bastante bueno

http://pacoea5ol.blogspot.com/2007/06/e ... nwood.html

15 junio 2007
¿El fin de Kenwood?
He llegado a este interesantísimo articulo de eham.net, vía el blog de i121171.
En el K6AER argumenta tras su visita a la Visalia DX Convention, que el stand de Kenwood, al contrario que el de Icom, Yaesu e incluso Elecraft, era de aspecto pobre y sobre todo sin novedades, ademas de otras consideraciones que se detallan en el articulo.
Lo cierto es, ¿desde cuando no saca Kenwood un equipo nuevo de HF?
Recomiendo la lectura del articulo (que esta en inglés), y los comentarios de colegas al mismo.

Publicado por Paco a las 13:24
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http://www.eham.net/articles/16702
Death of a Radio Company
Michael S. Higgins (K6AER) on June 12, 2007
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Many years ago we watched with some ambivalence the slow decline of the Drake Company from the amateur ranks. Mr. WR Drake had died and his non ham son was at the helm wanting to take the company in a different direction. At the time the excitement was high with new radios coming out from Kenwood, Yaesu and ICOM. We are at a similar fork in the road with Kenwood. Looking at the excitement almost every manufacture experienced at Dayton, Kenwood was one of the loan exceptions.
I talked with their North American sales Manager, Phil and he said they have no high performance HF radio in the pipeline. The sales crew looked haggard and tired and when I visited their booth on Friday and Saturday at Dayton, no one was smiling. No give aways, no fluf and the booth was looking old. The booth was for the most part vacant and best served as a short cut to the MFJ booths further into the arena. They had an empty Plexiglas covered box on Thursday during set up and many hoped a new high HF radio was to appear on Friday. Come Friday morning…..just a VHF mobile.
At the Visalia DX Convention a month earlier, the Kenwood Factory representative left on Saturday at noon while the convention show lasted for 5 more hours. Just some brochures were left on the table. They had a TS-2000 but no one stopped to talk. I would have to say the morale at Kenwood must be very low. Their two-way radio division is doing very well but not having a licensed ham at the helm of the amateur radio division is taking its toll. I feel Kenwood has suffered greatly in the HF community since the TS-870 was pulled from production with out a replacement. The last high performance design was the TS-2000 which started designed in late 1999. The technology is over 7 years old and getting long in the tooth.
I have been a Kenwood man for 35 years. My first Kenwood radios were the 599 twins. I own a TS-2000 as a backup radio and it is a very fine $1500 radio but it is not cutting edge performer. I finally went to an IC-756 Pro III when I upgraded my HF radio and as a result also bought several ICOM VHF radios. The lack of a flagship radio does transcend your buying decision for other radio purchases.
I saw this downward spiral of esteem with the Drake line after the old man died and his non ham son took over. The rest was history. I hope Kenwood is not on the same path.
If 3 guys at Elecraft can bring out a high perform HF transceiver, the K3 in a year's time it makes you think there is no one left in engineering at Kenwood other than the two way radio division. The crowd at Elecraft booth were two or three deep for much of the show and with every new buyer of a K3 sprouting a proud K3 button his shirt. By the end of the show they must have taken hundreds of orders for I saw K3 buttons every time I looked at the crowd.
I hope this is not the case for Kenwood but as a wise man once said watch what a person does not what they say. Kenwood's actions are speaking very loud.


Yo he visto en su catálogo este año 2007 una interesante propuesta a la que denominan Esule, y en la web europea, he visto altavoces nuevos que me gustan bastante, más incluso que los TAD de Pioneer.

La única pega son los centros de control A/V, como ellos los llaman, debido a que tienen un diseño ya antiguo para los tiempos actuales y poco atractivos, a diferencia de los sistema compactos y del amplificador o receptor A/V de diseño slim. Otras como Panasonic, Sony o Pioneer, han cuidado más los diseños de sus equipos A/V quepara el consumidor medio la imagen es lo primero que entra por los ojos. Aunque el sonido es lo que cuenta de verdad, pero ya sabemos que todos ellos suenan muy bien al ser equipos de gama media - alta, bastante caros por cierto. Es una pena que no rediseñen sus equipos A/V con una imagen más actual, como han hecho con su nueva linea Esule que se ve muy bien.

Quizás, en años anteriores, Kenwood era un fabricante más interesante que en la actualidad ( o por lo menos es una apreciación personal), pero sería una lástima que desapareciese, como fabricante de electrónica de sonido de referencia en la gama media-alta, como ya hiciera Technics, la marca referencia de Matsushita en cuanto a sonido, y que también me gustaba mucho; ahora solo queda la gama media-baja, que lleva Panasonic. Aunque parece que JVC, tambien de matsushita, se mueve en el segmento medio-alto.

[color=indigo]Casi que no entiendo de que va el post... osea que Kenwood se va a la mierda?... equipos de alta fidelidad hay por montones. [/color]