Trust me though when I say HEA is in free fall.
I believe you. I just got off the phone with a secret source who makes speakers, and his sources are saying the same thing.
I’m just wondering how specific a number you are getting from Parts Express and the HEA land.
It feels like we are in the same sort of market as SUVs were in before the gas price crisis (2009?). Gas prices shot up, the market for SUVs crashed, and several big name car makers went into free-fall.
For HEA to survive, it needs a new paradigm, a new, more inclusive world that takes into account the flat or lowered buying power of the median worker, rising rent and health care costs. That’s our new economic reality.
We need more commuter vehicles to excite us, not exotic vehicles attainable only by a shrinking number of listeners.
I remember some one threw some shade at me by saying "I don’t see you spending a lot of money." Guilty! I am not going to. I also think I’m the best example of the middle class enthusiast. That is, I’m well read, informed, make above median income, and I’m worried about money, and not about to shell out megabucks, period, and I’m sure not going to shell out money to impress my (non-existent) friends.
Thrill me, dammit! I’m waiting to be thrilled.
Best,
E