20-Mar-2017, 18:51
Guillaume made a very interesting (& very slightly off topic) post yesterday regarding the whereabouts of SAM lab. This reminded me of some thoughts I had a while back, plus it made me wonder. Where is SAM lab? Is it retired? Abandoned? Maybe it is on tour?
So, does anyone know where it is? Has anyone seen it recently?
With that question asked, I am still left wondering. I thought from the beginning that the SAM Lab concept was good, but it's implementation a little misjudged.
Consider that when someone buys a Devialet amp, Devialet get a little profit. All of the SAM Lab stuff is costs and overheads for Devialet. So lets say I splash out £140k on some KEF Muon speakers or something, I might want to get these SAM'd. Now I would say that anyone who was willing an able to spend that sort of cash on a pair of speakers would also very likely be happy to pay for a personal SAM Lab visit. So SAM Lab rather than being an overhead, it could be a revenue stream.
Indeed, Devialet could train a some staff in their 'premium' dealers to use SAM Lab, and every now and again each Dealer could be lent the kit, and the dealer could offer a SAM Lab service to their customers. In the long term this would be far more cost effective than flying Devialet personnel around the planet. Plus, it would offer a nice 'unique selling point' for the Devialet Expert range.
Having written all that, I suspect the SAM Lab has indeed been abandoned due to the fact it costs too much implement. I might be wrong?
So, does anyone know where it is? Has anyone seen it recently?
With that question asked, I am still left wondering. I thought from the beginning that the SAM Lab concept was good, but it's implementation a little misjudged.
Consider that when someone buys a Devialet amp, Devialet get a little profit. All of the SAM Lab stuff is costs and overheads for Devialet. So lets say I splash out £140k on some KEF Muon speakers or something, I might want to get these SAM'd. Now I would say that anyone who was willing an able to spend that sort of cash on a pair of speakers would also very likely be happy to pay for a personal SAM Lab visit. So SAM Lab rather than being an overhead, it could be a revenue stream.
Indeed, Devialet could train a some staff in their 'premium' dealers to use SAM Lab, and every now and again each Dealer could be lent the kit, and the dealer could offer a SAM Lab service to their customers. In the long term this would be far more cost effective than flying Devialet personnel around the planet. Plus, it would offer a nice 'unique selling point' for the Devialet Expert range.
Having written all that, I suspect the SAM Lab has indeed been abandoned due to the fact it costs too much implement. I might be wrong?
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