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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 23, 2020 21:21:33 GMT -6
Apparently they are jumping in the mic game.
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Post by seawell on Oct 23, 2020 21:23:44 GMT -6
Oh wow...very interesting!
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Post by tkaitkai on Oct 23, 2020 21:30:19 GMT -6
Welp, didn’t see that one coming... super cool though. Maybe I can get a Bock 251 for half the price now.
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Post by drbill on Oct 23, 2020 21:37:36 GMT -6
Sigh....oh well..... Hope it works out well. Sad to see the hands on boutique companies get swallowed up.
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Post by hadaja on Oct 23, 2020 21:49:05 GMT -6
Gees i better get a bock as they will be considered classics.
If you have one 2nd hand hit me up, i have the funds.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 23, 2020 22:42:35 GMT -6
Doubt they’ll be cheap.
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Post by rowmat on Oct 23, 2020 22:52:59 GMT -6
The question is will they continue the current line with the same quality of components or outsource the manufacturing?
Maybe I should hang onto my Bock 251.
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Post by guitfiddler on Oct 23, 2020 23:46:32 GMT -6
Wow! Interesting to see what the prices will be...tbc
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Post by kcatthedog on Oct 24, 2020 5:32:27 GMT -6
There is a bock 251 on GS.
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Post by levon on Oct 24, 2020 5:38:26 GMT -6
At 7.500 euros, I can happily live without a Bock 251. Unless it writes great songs for me...
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Post by kcatthedog on Oct 24, 2020 5:43:16 GMT -6
I think the one on gs is $2,000 usd : 1600€?
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Post by sean on Oct 24, 2020 6:14:19 GMT -6
I don't think you'll find a Bock 251 for $2000. Maybe an old 151.
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Post by mike on Oct 24, 2020 10:31:34 GMT -6
Wow! Interesting to see what the prices will be...tbc
....and what the part/design changes may possibly happen to reach their intended price point of the market they want a share of.
... If I remember right,.... they technically released a Bock 67 at one of the trade shows a year or two ago, but I've never heard of one in the wild. Has anyone tried one of these?
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Post by Ned Ward on Oct 24, 2020 10:48:20 GMT -6
Being acquired doesn't always have to be bad - while not the gear of this crew, Line6 is a lot happier under Yamaha and has room to breathe creatively and not focus on distribution and supply chain headaches.
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Post by Guitar on Oct 24, 2020 11:05:40 GMT -6
I'm wondering if there's going to be some tie in with Apollo, like digital mic modeling kind of thing, like the Slate stuff.
I know UA makes high end hardware too but the Apollo thing seems to be their big product line.
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Post by nobtwiddler on Oct 24, 2020 11:06:44 GMT -6
I purchased a few of David's mics back when he first started up his company. Great Mics, great guy. Still have all of them, including #101 (which is the first) U95s ever made! Used to go to SoundDelux Studios, hang with him there, and talk mics! Attachments:
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Post by ericn on Oct 24, 2020 11:35:09 GMT -6
At the very least I hope Dave did well in this deal! Small pro audio manufacturers don’t have 401k’s so for someone like Dave the only way to retire is to sell.
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Post by Guitar on Oct 24, 2020 11:36:56 GMT -6
I hope he's on a beach in the Bahamas sipping a Mai Tai, I was thinking about that too.
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Post by ericn on Oct 24, 2020 11:57:01 GMT -6
I hope he's on a beach in the Bahamas sipping a Mai Tai, I was thinking about that too. They won’t let you in from the US I tried.
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Post by reddirt on Oct 24, 2020 16:45:53 GMT -6
Cant imagine UA doing the big corporate buy up (not that they are "Big" anyway) and cheapen Bock to hit a price point, maybe they have the day to day issues such as distribution/promo etc sorted and David is kept on in some capacity where his skills are not stretched every which way. Cheers
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Post by rowmat on Oct 24, 2020 17:00:56 GMT -6
Hopefully UA doesn't end up outsourcing Bock production to a third party manufacturer in order to cut costs and compete with the likes of Warm Audio etc.
I'd like to know who manufactured the output transformer in the Bock 251. It's a friggin beast for a mic transformer!
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Post by kcatthedog on Oct 24, 2020 17:13:30 GMT -6
Dave and the whole team are moving into ua premises: doesn’t sound like outsourcing?
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Post by chessparov on Oct 24, 2020 17:18:46 GMT -6
Wow! Interesting to see what the prices will be...tbc
....and what the part/design changes may possibly happen to reach their intended price point of the market they want a share of.
... If I remember right,.... they technically released a Bock 67 at one of the trade shows a year or two ago, but I've never heard of one in the wild. Has anyone tried one of these?
I did, at both NAMM 2020 and 2019. As you may guess, the Bock 67 sounded terrific. Fortunately for wallet considerations, the Soundelux U99 sounded comparable for my voice. I plan to keep my Soundelux U195 (newest version). The last nail in the "keeping coffin"... Was David Rick liking it, on my voice. It's my "bring to a Pro Studio" mic. Better than a U87ai, on me. BTW the U195 and U99 interestingly enough, sound quite a bit different, from each other. The brighter U195 (set flat), is cool for Modern Genres too. U99 is a fine Crooners mic. Chris P.S. At around the $2.6K budget, it'd be U99 versus the Tonelux JC37 for me.
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 24, 2020 19:03:25 GMT -6
I posted this on a forum on which David Bock moderates the mic forum. So far there is no confirmation.
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Post by EmRR on Oct 24, 2020 19:05:26 GMT -6
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