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In Reply to: A dangerous stance perhaps... posted by HarryDStanton on October 30, 2017 at 10:43:37:
Ayre buys everything it can from US companies, preferably that is made in the US. Silinx FPGAs are designed in the US but made and packaged in overseas facilities. On Semi closed their last Arizona fab a couple of years ago. We used to use a US made rotary control but when they moved their production to Mexico (under NAFTA) quality went down, so we switched to Greyhill for expensive stuff that is still made in the US and Bourns for low-cost stuff that is made in Mexico. It's a struggle finding US manufacturers these days.
One thing is that with robotic pick-and-place machines, labor assembly costs are equalized. The AudioQuest DragonFlies are made in Ohio and only two parts come from China - the die-cast zinc shell (casting prices are about the same, but Chinese tooling is about 1/3 US prices) and a connector that is custom-made with solid silver contacts. That is because the US connector companies (Molex and TE) won't do customs for less that 1 million pieces. So it shows that with high-enough quantities, many things can be built in the US for competitive prices.
Also look at Schiit Audio. I think their power transformers are made in China, but pretty much everything else comes from the US, including the (very cost effective design) chassis and all of the labor. They have some amazing bargains, bu t again sell in extremely high volumes.
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