This topic is not 100% political. It's 100% economic clad wit commentary from summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. Always has been. Every darn time this topic comes up or is resurrected.
All the best,
Nonoise
Wharfedale Elysian 4 Incredible build quality and sound, but made in China.
When I walked into the shop my eyes were struck by these gorgeous looking beauties. Then I sat down and took a listen and said to myself they must cost $20000.-25000. When the dealer told me $10000. I was floored. What the hell, how can this be? Then he explained they’re made in China. I thought to myself, well if they’re who cares they look and sound fantastic.
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The most expensive loudspeaker designed by Peter Comeau and we still have no idea how it sounds. These are several times more expensive than the highly regarded Lintons but are they worth that difference? I still remember his Heybrook HB1s from way back. I had the Mk2 version and they were excellent all rounders. The made in China thing doesn't bother me at all as long as the people doing the doing the manual work are treated well. The real question is how do they sound? Apart from the odd slightly vague review, there doesn't seem to be a lot of user experience being shared online. |
Economies of scale. If it was made in the UK or US. $25K
Modern day global business practices often make it a nonsense to judge products by price. This is all good news for the consumer and it's hardly surprising that many businesses have adopted this method of supply. This is bad news for startup companies because the competition is not on a level playing field.
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@cd318 , Some things can be judge by price, but for luxury goods like audio equipment. I think its highly overrated/marked up in price as these equipment just play music. How much better each amplifier, DAC, speaker, cables are? It will be up to the consumer shelling out the price to find out. US goods has stopped the made in USA concept years ago, many of the product were made in Taiwan, now China and etc... If any of the goods were made here, you know we are paying a fortune for it, and many consumers would cry about the cost being so high. One of the iconic and most recognizable brand is Harley Davidson. those bikes are now made in China too. Lets go figure Competition is competion, nothng is ever on an even playing field unless companies start from scratch with technolgy and were born at the same time.
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