[RKDinOKC]

I remember those Utah speakers, I used them in a custom restaurant install I did in college. Made boxes for them and hung them from the rafters just above the grills in the dropped ceiling. Positioned and wired them with volume controls so you could control the volume in each of several different area's of the dining room. Sounded great and I did it all with just one amp. A guy came in and bought the tough portable speaker/enclosure I had made for the food prep room from the restaurant owner. A month later he was selling the same speaker for the area behind the seat of pickup trucks. His company is now called Kicker.

Somebody has to do all that price roll back. My nephew's father-in-law's company makes products that sell at Walmart. Says it takes 50 employees to deal with them. And also made the comment that Walmart comes in and tells you what they will buy your product for. If you can't sell it for that, they just drop your product. Companies end up cheapening their products to be able to meet Walmart's price points and stay in business. He had to move his manufacturing to China. Says he knocked off his own stuff. In my opinion that practice encourages and makes the products Walmart sells cheap junk. My favorite example is light bulbs. Same brand at Walmart and Home Depot. Walmart's cost less but only last about a month, Home Depot's last 3 months longer. I bet Home Depot and Walmart are making the same per item markup. It is getting more and more difficult to find quality stuff that is just a plain old fashion good value. Probably won't be too long before the bulbs at Home Depot don't last any longer than the Walmart bulbs.