Perhaps we can speculate some more
I’m sure all will be revealed in good time. B&W, Sonus Faber, McIntosh, ARC, and others have moved on from their founders. VSA in a different way as well. Will see what happens.
Indeed - we shall see what the future brings.
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#2 I listed other speaker manufacturers whose founder passed away or left. I danced around asking the question directly: where are those companies now and are they as 'strong' product-wise today as when the founder was still active? (Nobody picked up on that.) Broadly I'm thinking maybe they're not, with a few obvious exceptions.
The d'Agostino family survived and is flourishing. Is the same true of Krell? Are they now what they were under their founder?
What about Sonus Faber since Serblin left?
In some cases we don't know yet. Take ARC for example. Bill Johnson passed away in 2011 after selling the company to 'the Italians' in 2008(?). Despite ultimate consumption by the McIntosh consortium in the 12(?) years since Johnson's sale ARC, seems to be doing as well as ever. That's largely thanks to some core people, primarily Ward Fiebiger who was Johnson's right hand and senior circuit designer. Sadly, Fiebiger passed awy in 2017 at age 58. ARC's current crop of preamps/linestages/phonostages including their Reference 6/6se linestage and Reference 3/3se phono are Fiebiger designs. We haven't seen ARC products yet from the post-Johnson-Fiebiger era.
Not that many (any?) of the iconic brands came out of a committee. It's usually one or two guys in a basement with soldering irons. Subsequent corporations built on singular vision.
What if Alon Wolf left Magico?
Fwiw, Keith, you're actually the first person I thought of when I saw the YG/Geva news. Then I figured your YG Haileys remain just as good post-Geva.