But it makes you wonder why they didn't try to sell off that division, rather than just let it die, if they were the rationalists like you claim....

Anyway, what chance do you think that Technics would have survived much longer anyway, in a market so dominated by poorly built, toy-like bottom-line arrangers like we have today..?

When a juggernaut like Roland have problems selling high priced arrangers in today's economy, what chance did Technics have? They never really went for that low-end stuff, which is what keeps Yamaha afloat to develop things like the T3...