Reading up on their web presentation, one further learns that the company are headquartered in Eindhoven which hosted Philips during the company's 1974 heydays of 412'000 employees. Today this area is still described as a hi-tech campus with over 10'000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs to make the town's Brainport the "smartest square mile in the world". The mention creates virtue by assocation; as though a business in that district guaranteed anything. Whilst hearing remains believing when it comes to hifi, even curmudgeons, however reluctant, should feel compelled to grant this Ensis a very high chance at success; and all purely based on their present marketing materials. Which perhaps only means that their marketeers are doing their job well. For a first sampling in the flesh, there's the HighEnd Munich 2016 show launch next month. I predict this could become quite a head turner...
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