| TRA wrote on Tue, 15 July 2008 16:50 |
| wwittman wrote on Sun, 15 June 2008 22:07 |
my API 525s (for example) are 30 years old and still working great
THAT'S why i might "care" where and by whom they are made
my confidence level in the 'new' API to design new stuff worth using is not, but is near, zero
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Implying that a non-American person can't build a product equal to an American is pretty ignorant. There is and has been a lot of American made junk that is done a hell of a lot better overseas. Honestly...I'd worry more about buying RoHS compliant gear. That will be the real test of a products life expectancy. I'd like to see all of the new RoHS compliant gear work 10 or 15 years from now.
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I don't think that's what I implied.
For one thing, I'm English originally. Believe me, i think we built much better desks, on the whole, than Americans.
my strong SUSPICION here, and that's all it is, call it 'intuition', is that API decided that they cannot much alter the basic philosophy (2520s, all discrete, transformers in and out) of API without getting slammed for it.
So they introduce a new 'line' that allows them to throw all those things out the window and make the same kind of IC chip based, non-transformer, non-stepped, in a word - CHEAPER, gear that their competitors sell.
while hoping you continue to think of it as "API"
I think of it as "Squire"
