Bill,
I'm afraid that Technics is not listening, at least not here in the USA. Their employees are prohibited from monitoring the forums in the work place and in that case I doubt that they would have any incentive to monitor on their own time.

It's too bad but they could get some real insight into how their products fair in the market place. In most part they would be thrilled with the accolades given to the KN7000, and by looking at the "wish" lists, they could see how to improve their product in the future.
However, Technics is succesful in spite of appearing that they have their head in the sand. I wonder where they really get their ideas from? It would be interesting to know.
Walt