ROOSKIE
Major Contributor
When you are small you reserve production time/tooling time at great expense and often are down the line in terms of who comes first/gets priority.I had to laugh when I saw, 'the product is presently shown as Unavailable on the Emotiva website'. I think Emotiva is respected as a budget hifi direct seller, but their website often has multiple products shown as 'Unavailable'. They also have a habit of introducing new pieces in their product lines and cancelling items after short production cycles. This is probably a consequence of supply and demand but I've never bought an Emotiva product because I was never sure it wouldn't be replaced by something newer and better relatively quickly.
When you are huge you might actually have your own plant or at least dominate the production time slots.
Emotiva is likely doing the best they can. (Especially with being small scale)
Do must realize they dont want to be out of stock this often?
In any case all the small companies are at the mercy of many demands that can be hard to perfect and slight variations can break the bank.
Think, LG just stopped making cell phones after several years straight of billions per year in losses. Billions. No small company can compete with large companies in terms of ability to ride loss waves.
I actually can't beleive how emotiva, chane, hsu and myrid other small co's pull off what they do.
Mind blown when I contrast with the resources of the big co's like Harman, Sennheiser, Klipsch ect.