Miscellaneous Writings
Customer survey gems
In May, once again, we sent a customer survey to our newsletter subscribers. The end result was like throwing bread to ducks. We have no idea why or how, but...
The death spiral afterparty (or how the company didn’t go under after all)
As many people who’ve followed Valco’s adventures know, last year, meaning 2021, we got hit with a really nasty setback. On top of costs going up because of ...
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The Death Spiral (or how the company almost went under)
Hopefully this message reaches as many of you as possible, because we’ve got quite a lot to explain.
2020 went really damn well. At the end of the year we la...
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Customers are the worst
So here we are, having run this vague little webshop since last autumn (autumn 2017). Financially this produces absolutely nothing, but spiritually, running ...
Did you know this about Black Friday?
By now, most Finns have already heard of Black Friday, which is mainly celebrated in the United States. What fewer people know, though, is how this fine holi...
Valco’s new travel speaker
Jasse here again, hello. Already last summer I was cursing that how the hell is it possible there still isn’t a good travel speaker on the market. You know, ...
When shit hits the fan
We’re getting a lot of messages right now asking where the hell the headphones are, which is fair enough. Pretty soon someone will probably stop us in town a...
VALCO noise cancelling headphones - an amateur review
Like we said at the start, I completely agree that these are by far the best Bluetooth headphones I’ve had so far in terms of sound quality, and that’s why t...
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Valco's Great Headphone Odyssey, Part 2
So what do we actually need to take into account when we start designing headphones? In other words, what features make headphones good? And to be more speci...








