Tha Hombre
Jul 31 2003, 06:14 AM
I've spent a bit of time recently in overseas car audio stores (checking out Audison & Hertz offcourse), and it is now official that Rainbow has stopped production and is no longer!! Obviously US$7,500 splits aren't good enuf. j/k
Might have to grab a set before i leave
Marc
Jul 31 2003, 08:41 AM
Interesting, I know of the new Australian distributor for Rainbow, and it was about to be launched here in Aus. Strange! Pity really.
RTTZ
Aug 1 2003, 02:27 AM
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Originally posted by Tha Hombre:
I've spent a bit of time recently in overseas car audio stores (checking out Audison & Hertz offcourse), and it is now official that Rainbow has stopped production and is no longer!! Obviously US$7,500 splits aren't good enuf. j/k
Might have to grab a set before i leave
Not true.
RM Audio
Aug 1 2003, 02:50 AM
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Not true.
Please elaborate if you have evidence.
Phil K
RTTZ
Jul 31 2003, 03:07 PM
Hombre, mind telling us which country you were in when you were told that Rainbow has stopped production and is no longer?
Phil, you have an email.
Da'flea.
mick007
Jul 31 2003, 03:46 PM
It would be a pitty if the elite in car audio (aparently, nerver herd them) were to go under. Takes a step back for the 'depth' of car audio, however I am interested in knowing that R.M. Audio seems to be in everyone else's business. Phil do you mind elaberating on the evidence that you have at hand as to whether or not this is true??
Mick
ultim8DTM5
Jul 31 2003, 08:45 PM
I'm with Da'Flea, I seriously doubt this as Rainbow are quite large in the aftermarket car and home theatre sound industry.
Fudd
Jul 31 2003, 09:17 PM
i just asked a few guys from the UK and they belive there still going strong!
Tha Hombre
Aug 1 2003, 09:18 PM
I actually bought a magazine in Poland which has a write up about the European championships (or similar), and it is written that Rainbow has finished. Not only that, but EVERY major brand was represented at the show apart from Rainbow. I've approached about 3 stores that have told me the same.
I'm in Oxford going to London in 2 days, so i'll get some more info happening soon.
Either the people i've been speaking to are idiots and the magazines i've been reading are wrong, or Rainbow is no more.
If anyone has any better more factual information first hand, then please tell me otherwise.
Stayed tuned for more soon.
Dom
Tha Hombre
Aug 1 2003, 09:20 PM
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Originally posted by Da'flea:
Hombre, mind telling us which country you were in when you were told that Rainbow has stopped production and is no longer?
Da'flea, could u email me what you know.
RTTZ
Aug 1 2003, 10:35 PM
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Originally posted by Tha Hombre:
quote:
Originally posted by Da'flea:
[b]Hombre, mind telling us which country you were in when you were told that Rainbow has stopped production and is no longer?
Done!
Hutch
Aug 8 2003, 09:25 AM
I was wondering why they stopped replying to my emails.
RM Audio
Aug 11 2003, 12:57 PM
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I was wondering why they stopped replying to my emails.
Because they are busy making their new range of products you silly billy !
Phil K
Tha Hombre
Aug 12 2003, 02:31 AM
Background: In the early days of Rainbow, they asked a company (named SEAS) to produce a high quality speaker. Now that Rainbow has gone bankrupt (as is written in a European magazine & a European SQ judge told me), SEAS has released their own "high quality" brand of speakers. It is my belief that if Rainbow is to reproduce/distribute a line of speakers, it will be developed by another 'foreign' company.
Good or bad, i suppose we'll find out!
Dom
[ August 19, 2003, 11:11: Message edited by: Tha Hombre ]
SQrx7
Aug 12 2003, 11:26 PM
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Originally posted by ultim8DTM5:
I'm with Da'Flea, I seriously doubt this as Rainbow are quite large in the aftermarket car and home theatre sound industry.
I'm with you guys - Rainbow makes speakers for ARC Audio and supplies oem gear to some car manufactures like Fiat and VW.
And I thought that Rainbow has their own factory in Germany and that they build the speakers themselves?
Mmmm conspiracy theories...
RAC
Aug 13 2003, 12:33 AM
This is Rainbow Audio Company from Bad Rappenau Germany. It is very funny to see what kind of rumors are going on...
I can tell everybody that Rainbow is still alive and producing high quality speakers. We have our own production of speakers, crossovers and cables. I invite everybody to visit the factory in the Bad Rappenau area. Rainbow never did and will never let produce speakers from other companies as they do not have the knowledge and experience in developing and producing high quality speakers. You may check our website
http://www.rainbow-audio.de and you will see that we are doing business.
If anybody has still any doubts you may call me at Rainbow Audio company +49-7066-900612 and talk to me directly. I am in charge of export sales for nearly 30 countries.
Regarding the funny Poland story I can comment that we changed distributor for our products, but this was a bad decision. The current distributor did nothing. We are in progress of switching back to the old distributor and you will see Rainbow back in Polish market soon.
I do ask you to spread out this e-Mail to all other Car Audio forums so that the rumors will have an end...
Thank you very much.
Regards from Bad Rappenau, Germany
Stefan
Export department
QUOTE
Originally posted by Tha Hombre:
Background: In the early days of Rainbow, they asked a company (named SAS) to produce a high quality speaker. Now that Rainbow has gone bankrupt (as is written in a European magazine & a European SQ judge told me), SAS has released their own "high quality" brand of speakers. It is my belief that if Rainbow is to reproduce/distribute a line of speakers, it will be developed by another 'foreign' company.
Good or bad, i suppose we'll find out!
Dom
Tha Hombre
Aug 13 2003, 01:38 AM
Hmmm....interesting.
I have no vested interest in Rainbow what so ever, other than seeing what is active or not in the car audio industry. This is everything i have heard, and was not disagreed with in England (London) either.
As for it being published in a magazine (Auto Hi-Fi & Tuning NR 3[06]), perhaps you should have a word to the publishers/editors about their 'rumours'.
Just out of curiousity, why wasn't Rainbow represented at the 2003 European mobile electronics show? Supposedly there were 180 stalls representing 350 brands, bar Rainbow.
Either way, good luck & welcome as a new member!
Dom
RAC
Aug 14 2003, 02:54 AM
Thank you Dom.
We did not have a booth at the Car & Sound 2003 show in Sinsheim Germany, because at this time we had some internal shareholder problems. It took until June 2003 to solve those problems. Now we are fully back in business...
Greetings to "Down under" from Germany...
Stefan
Export department
RAC GmbH & Co. KG
Kirchhausener Str.44
74906 Bad Rappenau, Germany
Tel. +49-7066-900612, Fax +49-7066-900650
QUOTE
Originally posted by Tha Hombre:
Hmmm....interesting.
I have no vested interest in Rainbow what so ever, other than seeing what is active or not in the car audio industry. This is everything i have heard, and was not disagreed with in England (London) either.
As for it being published in a magazine (Auto Hi-Fi & Tuning NR 3[06]), perhaps you should have a word to the publishers/editors about their 'rumours'.
Just out of curiousity, why wasn't Rainbow represented at the 2003 European mobile electronics show? Supposedly there were 180 stalls representing 350 brands, bar Rainbow.
Either way, good luck & welcome as a new member!
Dom
NUTTTR
Aug 14 2003, 11:00 AM
WOW!!
Spoken to by "the man" from Rainbow!
Nice
We all would love a set of the speakers, but they are too expensive However, they are world renowned and i am glad that they aren't dissapearing!
Aaron
Fudd
Aug 14 2003, 11:19 PM
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Originally posted by RetroPimp:
i just asked a few guys from the UK and they belive there still going strong!
cough cough.
anyway
Welcome Stefan,
hope you enjoy your stay here and we all would love your imput from time to time, it's good to see some fresh faces from manafactures overseas!
Rob
ultim8DTM5
Aug 15 2003, 09:20 AM
Heheh, I knew I was right.
And don't believe everything you hear!
[ August 15, 2003, 07:23: Message edited by: ultim8DTM5 ]
-DJ-
Aug 17 2003, 04:45 PM
hmmm...
just wondering. i saw a set of rainbow splits. the tweeter looked unfamiliar (a soft dome of some description) but the mid looked identical to a Seas 'excel'-series driver.
am i wrong??
d
SQrx7
Aug 18 2003, 09:17 PM
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Originally posted by DjHatton:
hmmm...
just wondering. i saw a set of rainbow splits. the tweeter looked unfamiliar (a soft dome of some description) but the mid looked identical to a Seas 'excel'-series driver.
am i wrong??
d
The only Rainbows that are similar to Seas are the top of the range Reference splits which are hand built by Rainbow. Only similarity is the colour of the cone and way the dustcap looks.
[white lie]
Aug 19 2003, 05:35 AM
so does this mean Rainbow are still going to be released in Aus sometime soon? Who was meant to be distributing them Marc?
Marc
Aug 19 2003, 08:15 AM
To my knowledge, the distributor for Aus is finalising things to begin distibution at a later stage this year.
Looking forward to it
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