Rio leaving the digital audio market

By Matthew Deutsch · August 31, 2005 ·

Rio Audio has announced that it will be exiting the digital audio player business by the end of September. I thought that they had been just beginning to regain market share after releasing their semi-popular Karma and Carbon (pictured above) lines, however the president, Vic Pacor, thought differently. “The digital audio market is evolving in such a way that our competitive advantage will be to focus on creating premium home network products that are designed for compatibility with a variety of client devices and services.”