Terry, KQ5U wrote: > Just because others are doing it doesn't make it right!
Right? As in breaking a law or violating a bible verse or something? These things are just purchase choices. Might as well complain about wallpaper. Something done both functional and pretty. Sometimes "pretty" is very useful in the household environment, where someone (nobody named) insists on the station "looking good" or moving "that mess" to the unheated garage. A lot of matching speakers have been sold over eight decades, as in back to the 1940's matching speaker for a National NC-2-40-D and its sibling variants, which was a good looking ginormous heavy matching style boat anchor electromagnet speaker near as big as the 240D. http://www.tuberadio.com/240d/240D.html Note the matching feet. Great sound by the way, for listening to AM music broadcast. Magnet current for the electromagnet in the speaker came from the radio. Manufacturers make those things because customers want them and buy them. Just to name a few of the many more, Collins had a matching speaker for the gold dust twins and then for the S line. Heathkit's SB series had a matching speaker SB600 which could hold the power supply for an SB100/101/102 transceiver. This goes on without a break to the current day. I'm sure Wayne had a huge stack of requests to justify the business expense. He ain't building anything without a market. (We should have figured that out by now.) There's a long, long tradition very firmly behind visually matching speaker units. And then one must remember that a lot of people voted for these with their wallets. If they want to buy it, and if it ain't illegal, poisonous, explosive, or whatever dangerous, why not? To my way of thinking, it's just another thing that keeps our manufacturer profitable, and therefore still in business. I like that "still in business" thing. Means I'm still getting new development, fixes, etc. 73, Guy ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
