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Do build quality standards mean anything to the Chinese?
pete andrews:
bill -
it's a 70's SVT with a Fliptops.net 1x15 cab i had made for it... it's the small box i use when i don't want to wheel around the 70's 2x15. the low end on the thing is ridiculous. perfect bass cab as far as i'm concerned.
pete
Bubba#$%Kron:
Happy ending anyone?
compasspnt:
A P P L E.
J.J. Blair:
Is this a trick question?
Honestly, they control their quality only to the extent that their OEM clients make them.
ssltech:
J.J. Blair wrote on Mon, 10 January 2011 21:21
Is this a trick question?
Honestly, they control their quality only to the extent that their OEM clients make them.
Or -think of it another way- Do we go to the Chinese because their standards are consistently high, or do we go because their costs are cheap?
I'm conflicted to admit that I get stuff made in china (circuit boards etc) because if I paid US prices, people would grumble about the cost of the finished product.
Rupert Neve's stuff is all assembled in the USA because he can't assure people that the quality of a Chinese-built product would be as good, and because he has staked a reputation upon quality which will bring buyers at higher prices.
Not so Presonus/Behringer/Digidesign.
Also, the amount of back-door product duplication from ANYTHING of any perceived merit or value is simply staggering. -Shure microphones for example.
I don't have the reputation or 'brand value' to worry about either of these matters so much.
But China builds down to a price, not up to a standard.
"This is Hotel Bastardos, -you want soft-a-toilet-paper? -You go to hotel sweetcheeks, down the road."
China is cheap. You can't reasonably buy Chinese and then be indignant about quality any more than you can buy a Hyundai and complain that it isn't a Rolls-Royce.
Keith
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