That sucks... The Elkhart, IN facility is about 20 miles from my house. It used to be the Crown factory before Harman bought them out. I applied there once when I was in my twenties. Sad to hear it's been closed.

bitflipper
Samsung doesn't give a hoot about AKG, JBL, etc. They bought Harmon for one reason: to own the division that supplies OEM electronics to car manufacturers. Entertainment systems are part of that, but the real growth area they're investing in is navigation and GPS tracking, driver-assistance and self-driving cars, and the software that spies on drivers for insurance companies. That $8B investment will be earned back in the first year.
 
Let's just hope the next iteration of the C414 doesn't start spontaneously bursting into flames.

Great ! So if I ever get to replace my non-computerized piece of rust, my insurance rate will go up :P 

n13L5

ampfixer
We all work for the same master. $$$$$$$ It's all that matters in the 21st century.

Your proclaimed master, $$$ = the greatest scam ever devised. You go to the bank and ask for a loan.  The money they give you does not exist yet - it comes into existence only by the power of your promissory note, that you will pay that amount to the bank over time (which will be one of the papers you have to sign, without knowing what it really means).
They are loaning you money they didn't have to loan until you signed that note. And the interest they expect you to pay on your "loan" is NOT created - so all interest is missing in the available circulation - ensuring, that about three out of ten people will not be able to pay off their loans, allowing the banks to grab their real assets for money that they did not actually loan you. In this way, all real assets in the world will be consolidated in bankers' hands in less than 200 Years.
This is called fractional-reserve debt-money (paying off all debt is impossible, because the money required to pay the interest is not being created.  But if it were possible and actually paid off, there would be no money in circulation). This system is nothing but a means to drive all of humanity into slavery.

bitflipper
Samsung doesn't give a hoot about AKG, JBL, etc. They bought Harmon for one reason: to own the division that supplies OEM electronics to car manufacturers. Entertainment systems are part of that, but the real growth area they're investing in is navigation and GPS tracking, driver-assistance and self-driving cars, and the software that spies on drivers for insurance companies. That $8B investment will be earned back in the first year.
 
Let's just hope the next iteration of the C414 doesn't start spontaneously bursting into flames.

And JBL had just started to make better speakers again...


I guess we could *hope*, that Samsung sells off the divisions they don't need to people who do have an interest in pro-audio gear - like they did with Cakewalk...
 

Ok, so knowing this, why aren't you a banker?!

behringer.

Ok, so knowing this, why aren't you a banker?!
 
Step 1: Earn a High School Diploma. ...Step 2: Obtain a Bachelor's Degree. ...Step 3: Participate in an Internship. ...Step 4: Complete an Investment Banking Program. ...Step 5: Get Licensed. ...Step 6: Consider Obtaining a Master of Business Administration (MBA)
 
 
 
Be related to or become very very good friends with the billionaire bankers of the world

bayoubill
Ok, so knowing this, why aren't you a banker?!
 

How To Become A Banker

 

Step 1: Earn a High School Diploma. ...Step 2: Obtain a Bachelor's Degree. ...Step 3: Participate in an Internship. ...Step 4: Complete an Investment Banking Program. ...Step 5: Get Licensed. ...Step 6: Consider Obtaining a Master of Business Administration (MBA)
 
 
 
Be related to or become very very good friends with the billionaire bankers of the world

That's a lot of steps and time just to get a job that averages 70K a year, in the US at least.  I worked at AT&T for 12 years making 66K a year with nothing but a 2 year associate's degree in electronics.  Not sure I'd give up half of my life just to make money.  Well, actually..I'm sure I wouldn't, since I haven't, ha ha.  

Oh, and apparently you only have to be friends with Jamie Dimon since he's the only billionaire banker in the world.  I know this cuz Quora knows everything and it said so.  
 

batsbrew
behringer.

Belong to Music Group or Music Tribe as they are called now, don't they? Along with TC, Midas, Tannoy, Turbosound (previously distributed by Harman) and a bunch of others.
 
Yours truly worked for them for a very short while. 
 
 

Voda La Void
Oh, and apparently you only have to be friends with Jamie Dimon since he's the only billionaire banker in the world.  I know this cuz Quora knows everything and it said so.  

Good luck with that. And he's not the worst of the bunch.
 
I was consulting to Citibank in the late '90s when they were bought out by Travelers. Sandy Weill (Travelers, and a real bastidge) won the CEO war, so John Reid (Citi, loved the guy) was out. Jamie worked for Sandy and was being groomed to replace him. Then he fired Sandy's daughter (a useless salary check casher) for incompetence. Then Sandy fired him. Jamie took most of the top management staff with him and went to Bank One. Then they bought First Chicago. Then they got swallowed up by JPMorgan Chase, and he then ran that. Still is. He made money on every one of those transactions. And he's still out to get Citi, even though Sandy is long gone.

TheMaartian

Voda La Void
Oh, and apparently you only have to be friends with Jamie Dimon since he's the only billionaire banker in the world.  I know this cuz Quora knows everything and it said so.  

Good luck with that. And he's not the worst of the bunch.
 
I was consulting to Citibank in the late '90s when they were bought out by Travelers. Sandy Weill (Travelers, and a real bastidge) won the CEO war, so John Reid (Citi, loved the guy) was out. Jamie worked for Sandy and was being groomed to replace him. Then he fired Sandy's daughter (a useless salary check casher) for incompetence. Then Sandy fired him. Jamie took most of the top management staff with him and went to Bank One. Then they bought First Chicago. Then they got swallowed up by JPMorgan Chase, and he then ran that. Still is. He made money on every one of those transactions. And he's still out to get Citi, even though Sandy is long gone.

 
Brilliant!