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Title: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: Hendrix-HK on December 20, 2013, 01:58:58 PM
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Announced that it acquired all the stock Yamaha, of Line 6, will be a wholly owned subsidiary
by ICON / 2013.12.20 17:34


Yamaha announced, and a wholly owned subsidiary the Line 6. It is to get all of the shares of 6 Line in 2014 the end of January, with plans to complete a wholly owned subsidiary. This is It is a surprise. Wireless and related products guitar-related products, including POD, feel good supplement product line of Yamaha will, but how live / SR-related products ...... or would become. It is attention to the trend of the future.
Title: Re: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: dave_mc on December 20, 2013, 05:42:02 PM
Interesting, thanks for the heads up :)
Title: Re: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: JDC on December 20, 2013, 06:33:52 PM
I wasn't expecting that, would expect line 6 to be worth quite a bit with all the pod and spider sales
Title: Re: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: gwEm on December 24, 2013, 10:19:24 AM
very interesting news

makes total sense as well - Yamaha have a very good reputation with their guitars/basses and also keyboard and synths, but weirdly they don't have hardly any guitar related tech like Roland/Boss or Korg/Vox.
Title: Re: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: Dave Sloven on December 24, 2013, 12:28:20 PM
Hopefully this means that the quality of Line 6 stuff improves.

I have a Pocket Pod but I never use it, I find it to be useless.  I have thought about getting a Line 6 wireless unit but I will wait to see if a better model is released.
Title: Re: Yamaha acquisition of Line 6
Post by: Plenum n Heather on December 26, 2013, 12:28:55 PM
Quote from: Agent Orange on December 24, 2013, 12:28:20 PM
Hopefully this means that the quality of Line 6 stuff improves.

I have a Pocket Pod but I never use it, I find it to be useless.  I have thought about getting a Line 6 wireless unit but I will wait to see if a better model is released.
Doubtful. L6 will be a wholly owned subsidiary, basically still running independently but getting their checks from Yamaha.

Would be nice, though ... Anything I have ever bought from Yamaha has lasted ages!