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News broke overnight that Masimo Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its consumer audio business to HARMAN International, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung, for an aggregate purchase price of US$350 million in cash, "subject to certain adjustments". According to an official statement, the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2025, subject to receiving necessary regulatory approvals.
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This is like trying to sum up James Joyce's "Ulysses" in 12 words.
I got a History degree in "American Civilization." I read about 1,200 books about the post-WWII goings-on, and, at least 200 about the JFK assassination.
So, I am sensitive to Conspiracy Theories.
The Conspiracy Theory I have heard mention of, about the Masimo thingy, is, Masimo did not buy any of those audio companies because they wanted them, but rather to own Marantz's patented home-network HEOS software, which Masimo supposedly believed that Apple's heart-monitor Watch app infringed upon the patents of.
TALK ran into the Billions. ???
Reality? Stick a $20 bill into a stripper's G-String, and ask her what she thinks.
And which, in any event, Masimo believed it needed for its own medical-devices core business.
Zo, until we see the Closing Book, we do not know which patents went where.
AFAIK, the audio brands are just disposable window dressing.
Especially now, when everything costs more, and people are husbanding their cash to buy canned goods!!!!
Gib mir ein Break!
saintjean
Especially now, when everything costs more...
Inflation. Now on the mend. :)
For anyone to win Billions of dollars from Apple over the HEOS patent.
Nor I wondering what your response has to do with inflation.
So all of those brands are under the S.Koreans, as are many other S.Korean brands not under the Samsung umbrella. I have nothing against this but I do find it interesting.
Edits: 05/07/25
Thanks for the news, but I think you buried the lede.
Here is the important takeaway for me:
The Samsung-owned Harman porfolio includes audio brands JBL, Harman/Kardon, AKG, Infinity, Mark Levinson, Arcam, Austere, Crown, DBC, Lexicon, Martin, Revel, and Soundcraft. If the new deal goes ahead, Harman will add Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, Polk, Definitive Technology, Classe, HEOS, and Boston Acoustics, making it the largest audio company in the world.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
May be some future consolidation.
Stereonet buried the lede before audio_d did.
"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior."
- Robin Skynner
Right you are.
My apologies to the OP, and thanks for bringing it up.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
nothing against some of those very fine brands , but this does emphasize how strong a boutique audio company has to be to compete against such brand and purchasing power.
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