[A6] my thoughts

[Dave Scrimenti]

    I'm in favor of anything that might get Alesis interested in the A6
again. It's one of the few truly professional products this company ever put
out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Lewis" <kentium at earthlink.net>
To: <a6 at code404.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: [A6] my thoughts


> I've been closely following the last several months worth of discussion,
> and I'd like to chime-in on a couple of things that have been swirling
> around in my head for a while.
>
> I am really pleased we have this community, and that there are some
> extremely talented and knowledgeable people who contribute to the future
> the Andromeda.  Everyone is very committed to making this community so
> successful, and it adds REAL value to owning an A6.
>
> It seems like when I buy any new equipment, I *always* search for the
> unofficial community site to read-up on what issues, complaints, kudos,
> etc are offered up by the ACTUAL people using the gear.  I did this when
> I bought the A6.and I'm in the process of researching a new table-top CD
> player.and one of the places I found was an unofficial Technics site-
>
> http://sldz1200.net <http://sldz1200.net/>
>
> (Don't worry.I'm going with the Pioneer CDJ-1000's)
>
> I think our community is great, but I think it could be better- and
> certainly more influential when it comes to helping a potential customer
> make a purchasing decision.  Consequently, Alesis/Numark may take more
> notice of our issues if we are reaching more of their prospects with our
> complaints.  Get my drift?
>
> I am a web designer/developer and I think I have the skills, resources,
> and time to put into building a more web-based front end to our
> community.perhaps similar to how the sldz1200.net site is setup.  What
> are everyone's thoughts?  I just feel like a more polished,
> professional, easy-to-use, easy-to-find community website would help
> emphasize our issues with the A6 and Alesis,  The squeaky wheel gets the
> grease, right?
>
> At any rate, I think manufacturers are quickly realizing that a
> community of users for its products is a powerful marketing influence
> for other potential customers.and as such, they WANT us to be happy with
> our gear!
>
> >From my perspective-  all of the R&D work (aside from our list of bugs,
> features) has been finished. Alesis has filed bankruptcy/been
> acquired.so there shouldn't be any major lingering debt associated with
> being able to produce the A6.  It doesn't seem unreasonable to me at all
> to think that Alesis/Numark could re-release an Andromeda Platinum
> edition that has a new colored face plate (platinum?), a new upgraded OS
> (available to all A6 users) and a whole new marketing campaign as a
> relatively low-cost way to breathe new life into this product.
>
> I also tend to think that there MUST be at least one or two
> Alesis/Numark employees who monitor this list.so they likely already
> have our complete list of bugs and feature requests.
>
> There it is.
>
>
>
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