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Stereophile wanted to find out more about how COVID-19 was impacting the audio industry - how companies and people are coping and adapting to an unpredictable and unprecedented situation that's still unfolding, changing daily. "The whole industry is being filled with layoffs, and no one is talking about it", Mat Weisfeld, president of VPI Industries, says. Pushing plans and pivoting COVID-19 has led two companies - Schitt Audio and VPI Industries - to accelerate plans already in the works. Usually it's going to be OK, … but I don't want to get too crazy, like 'everything is going to be roses and unicorns.'" VPI Industries is located in New Jersey - another locked-down state - but it too was considered an essential business based on the "manufacturing or assembly" criteria, says CEO Mat Weisfeld, who adds that they've all been nervous about the COVID-19 situation. [Extracted from the article]