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In Reply to: RE: American Made Speakers posted by unclestu52 on January 25, 2009 at 22:43:49:
Since KCS has been doing this for near 17 years now. I have seen drivers built in other country's move production to China. Many of these drivers that used to meet spec are no longer such close matches. I have found many problems with new Chinese sourced drivers. Not meeting spec not working;) poor build quality. With costly ribbons I have found more than once that the ribbons where assembled with human hairs hanging out kind of Gross. I have never found even a cheap eminence to be out of spec or poorly built. For Chinese only the very costly drivers are meeting spec I was rejecting many Chinese built parts now I only use a few Chinese drivers and try to avoid Chinese parts. Many of the Chinese binding posts were snapping due to voids in metal. I have also seen factory reps from major manufacturers having to check in field Chinese produced drivers and rejecting near 50% this is after they where at distributor. The Chinese cabinets I have check out are MDF and smell toxic. I could save 60% of my cab cost this includes shipping from China but then I get smelly poorly built Chinese MDF with materials from unsustainable harvests. I will stick to quality plys sourced from sustainable forests.Where the folks who build are paid fair and the construction of this ply doesn't so pollute the world like Chinese plys and MDF. More to this than just saving money if you buy Chinese you also cause job lose in US and much more pollution. Is it worth it to save a buck or so. To end up with a poorly built product with materials sourced in the most destructive ways made by folks who work for next to nothing and live in massive pollution due to no government controls? Seems to many Audiophiles name means more than build or parts used. If your favorite name brands now made in China do you care?
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Follow Ups
- Chinesse drivers not testing to spec other parts just break. - jkalinow@hotmail.com 01/26/0906:23:10 01/26/09 (2)
- You raise an interesting point - unclestu52 19:32:21 01/27/09 (1)
- RE: You raise an interesting point - jkalinow@hotmail.com 09:38:47 01/28/09 (0)
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