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In Reply to: Must agree. I like to know the cost first for context, and then the origin of manufacture. (nt) posted by semuta on June 9, 2020 at 18:09:23:
One thing that would attract me back to reading professional reviews is information about manufacturing: where are the key components made, and where is the product assembled?
This information is often hard to come by. The larger manufacturers loathe discussing it unless it's part of their marketing strategy. I get that they want flexibility to change suppliers, move production, and make small design changes for the sake of producibility - without exposing the consumer to multiple model variations. But most people who are into high end audio want to be more like connoisseurs than ordinary consumers.
The elephant in the room is the question of China. A certain percentage of potential customers want to avoid Chinese-made equipment. I couldn't put a number on it, but it's not insignificant. So a lot of manufacturers make it difficult to know what's being made in China. They won't put it on their website, don't answer direct questions, and you have check out the product in person to see the country of origin label, which doesn't tell you much. Every part and sub-assembly could be outsourced, and the country of origin label will only tell you where the final assembly took place, if that.
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Follow Ups
- Origin of manufacture - Dave_K 06/10/2005:23:19 06/10/20 (12)
- RE: Nothing I've owned of foreign manufacture has ever proselytized, dominated, or subjugated me - B. Scarpia 04:22:45 06/13/20 (11)
- RE: Nothing I've owned of foreign manufacture has ever proselytized, dominated, or subjugated me - Andy43 12:01:22 07/6/20 (0)
- RE: Nothing I've owned of foreign manufacture has ever proselytized, dominated, or subjugated me - LtMandella 11:29:45 07/1/20 (0)
- My money, my choice (long) - Dave_K 10:45:50 06/15/20 (2)
- RE: My money, my choice (long)-so too with me! - Mel 08:01:55 06/27/20 (0)
- Very nice write up. - JoshT 19:38:30 06/17/20 (0)
- Good grief you make a lot of assumptions. nt - JoshT 19:16:11 06/14/20 (5)
- RE: Good grief you make a lot of assumptions. nt - Cleantimestream 08:56:44 06/21/20 (4)
- How about one more assumption.... - TEA FOR ONE 05:24:43 06/26/20 (3)
- RE: How about one more assumption.... - John Atkinson 04:41:47 06/27/20 (2)
- RE: How about one more assumption.... - semuta 01:41:24 07/2/20 (1)
- RE: How about one more assumption.... - John Atkinson 04:32:59 07/3/20 (0)
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