From sevush@rcn.com Fri Jan 25 09:49:06 2002
Subject:Re: What about the XK-2?

I agree, I don't think Hammond/Suzuki cares all that much about the MI market. The home and church markets have much higher margins and higher prices.

I don't think Hammond ever really wanted to sell into the MI market. The porta-b was not a great offering.

A side topic question - do the current Leslie offerings sound as good as the older versions? I would hope that some of the motors and relay technology have been updated and *should* be more reliable.

> This is all conjecture on my part, but it seems that creating clone products for "in-the-trenches" gigging musicians has never been the highest priority for Hammond-Suzuki. This is not to say that they haven't made useful products in that area, but it seems like their priorities have been elsewhere: