New $24,000 inter-connect
"...a local cable manufacturer’s office this week, seizing more than $600,000 — worth of cables...Apparently, officers were a bit more realistic and did not value cables much more than those from Home Depot. It still remains that the company was preparing for, guessing it, 20000 customers for their cables. That is a lots of people for one manufacturer of a product that is, at best, used for entirely non-essential indulgence at high price. |
Many audio things labeled as Made In USA contain parts that come from outside the US. I have products that are Made In USA that contain batteries made in China. I have products that are Made In USA that contain crystals from all over the world, Brazil, India, wherever. They’re still made in the US. Designed and assembled. There is no standard for what should be labeled Made In USA. Some things are Designed in USA, assembled in China. Is Apple an American product or Chinese? Some technology Made In USA is stolen and produced outside USA. Weren’t the ubiquitous Continuous Cast Copper conductors a Japanese invention? A couple years ago there was someone who compiled a compendium of audiophile products that were Made In the USA, including those that contained parts made outside USA. To whit, http://americanmadeaudio.com/the-list/ |
@rja +1 I would add, for those buying $24K interconnects, at least know how to evaluate them. I wouldn’t buy a $24K car without test driving it so at least hear the interconnects in your own system and decide whether the sound is worth $24K to you before you commit to purchasing them.....then it won’t matter what the reviewers say, how many on A’gon like them, where they are designed, sourced, or assembled, or the consensus of this thread. |
The autopac rules and regs supplied the designations for ’made in the usa’ or ’made in canada’. That number, is 10% or more of the whole manufacturer’s VALUE, in cash expense/costs --attached. That a PC can be entirely built out of Chinese and Asian parts at $1000, but assembled, tested and software installed by the ’manufacturer’ at $101 at factory floor costs (assigned as a number by the manufacturer), all done in America or Canada. This allows the company to attach a ’made in America’, or ’made in Canada’ sticker. 100% legal and correct in the spirit of the law and letter of the law. Otherwise all the cars you drive would very much be of foreign origin. Any Ford, or Chevy, etc. That’s what Tara was basically doing, but were raided, and the us customs was probably egged on, repeatedly... by competition who wanted them to go away. The audio business can get ugly and has been quite ugly at times. However, one can’t just remove a label, put the item in a box and call it ’made in America’. One has to prove those (minimum 10%) expenses as a correctly derived reality, if asked to do so. It’s an honour system and runs decently enough. Like the RoHS compliance system for the EU. |
