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Carlito
3
Feb 18, 2016
Is the silver version available?
wuhanclan
33
Feb 18, 2016
CarlitoLooks to be no. When you click Join Drop, you can either pick the Amp or the Amp + Speakers.
lugnut
103
Mar 29, 2016
CarlitoI doubt it, unless you live in Europe or Asia. There seems to be a conspiracy with all the big audio manufacturers not to sell silver audio products in the usa. For the life of me I just don't understand why. They do make the components in silver they just will not sell them in the us. Then we have Schiit that only makes silver. Again I don't understand, just offer both, hell I would pay extra to get the color I want, just balck or silver, nothing exotic !! Sorry for the rambling on, just a pet peeve. Anyone else feel the way I do ?
DoubleTap
8
Mar 30, 2016
lugnutyes, it's very annoying. I saw the silver version of this online - it looks really nice.
mad_bird
40
Apr 10, 2016
lugnuti just emailed MARANTZ because they offer the MARANTZ HD AMP1 only in black in the USA. silver or black everywhere else. i will share the response........
>While we truly appreciate your interest in our product, unfortunately we will not be producing this unit in silver for the North American market. Our company has done extensive market share studies to avoid the same costly results from past product launches that were unsuccessful. We would need to commit to building a certain number of units in order to have manufacturing approved and we statistically would not sell the amount of units made and would wind up with un sellable excess stock. And while our company prides itself on delivering what our customer wants, we simply do not have enough customers interested in alternate colors to warrant the production therein. We apologize we were unable to fulfill your request.
Thank you,
Technical Support/Custom Install D+M Group <
i'm afraid the US is filled with too many black loving idiots, and i am not being racist
LarryT
27
Apr 11, 2016
mad_birdTrends involve colors, and trends are rarely "better" or "worse" anywhere than anywhere else. The U.S. is still recovering from it's 15 year obsession with the color silver. In 2005 I think 50% (no joke) of all cars sold were the color silver. I still can't stand silver on a car, and only now and then on electronics.
I you want to try and prove your "opinion" correct, though, you're going to have a hard tim-- because more audiophile *design* comes out of the US than anywhere. But what absolutely dwarfs that fact is the percentage of design that comes out of California.
California is the design epicenter of nearly everything. Even BMW, Mercedes and Audi each have (if not their primary design center) a huge design center in California. And I haven't even started on the world's most valuable company, Apple, home to arguably the most copied design aesthetics of any single enterprise- which encompass not only consumer electronics, but graphic design, marketing, on and on.
The only global design standards that I don't think flow directly (or indirectly) out of America those of fashion, and if you want to consider it, food.
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