The Great Amercian Speaker Company?

Unfortunately "Dorothy were are not in Kansas any more." I've never been one elevate form over substance. There is no reason why ML can't make a quality product in Canada for export to America. I can't help but lament the loss of of yet another company. That's their call. I personally think it will come back to haunt them.
Jim Powers has retired. I could see the handwriting on the wall. My request for new panels was processed by a nice long lady(Melodie Brouhard). I never heard anything from her. I am sure Jim would have contacted me just to see everything was OK. Ironically Jim is still being listed as a current employee on the ML website.
yes good things can always happen under these circumstances. But they rarely do. Most disturbing is the plan to end support of some of the older models. I INVITE MARTIN LOGAN TO COME ON THIS SITE AND SOOTHE OUR FEARS. Maybe they will ease their patent restrictions and allow some of the former technicians to form a repair company for those orphaned modest.
It is likely that I will end up being the co/moderator of this Martin Logan forum. I plan to avoid some of the mistakes I made on another site. We should all be able to find some common ground and disagree amicably. i don't want to have to censor or discipline anybody. I just hope all I have to do is make comments on how to get the the most of our Logan's.
I plan to inform ML and my local ML dealers that I am moderating this site. I hope they would include in their press rellease list.
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I plan to contact ML for thier "official word " on the subject. Product support is thier sine qua non as far as I am concerned. It has been in decline for a while. Jim Powers was handcuffed IME and IMO. When i ordered my new CLS panels recently there was a delay because they were not "in stock). The fact that they decided to go "modular" from the beginning was brilliant. Shipping the entire speaker back to the factory would have been prohibitive.
Empirically most of the popular models sold well and are still in use. I imagine they are some models whose numbers just don't merit continued support.

"...they'll provide plenty of notice for a "last buy...". . It just scares people who had no intention of buying to make purchase out of fear. To me that just sucks.

Thanks RUR. That should hold us for the time being.

Myles. Thanks for posting. I hope youi don't mind that I use your post to site my policy on indicating ones affiliation. It's not written in stone but you may and should announce your affiliation with any audio related business. I don't thinks it's appropriate to provide a URL or announce any sales opportunities. So, what you did is fine and should serve as an example for others. If anyone takes issue with that please contact me via private message before posting. I will submit your problem to the administrator.
Melnaie Brouhard has been annouced as his replacement. I think we all should contact her with our problems. No doubt in the beginning she can learn form us. Ironically the ML website is still touting Jim as thier service manager.