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In Reply to: RE: Another great company sells out to the Chinese posted by suretyguy on October 24, 2014 at 21:13:30
Unfortunately the standard Chinese business plan is to undercut competitors' prices and sell to the mass consumer market rather than niche, up-markest.
Nowadays Western makers MUST sell to the high-end niche unless they move production off-shore. On-shore labor and other costs are supply too high for them to manufacture for the lower and mid-markets.
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I don't necessarily disagree with your comments, but they're not really
responsive to my point about the assumption expressed in this thread that Chinese products are automatically inferior. But that issue palls by comparison with my other point about the ignorance of how business works.
Excellent point Feanor.
There are a few exceptions "on-shore", of course. Many of them seem to cater to the medium to low wattage/medium to high-efficiency school of hifi (Magnepan being a notable exception), which includes headphone hifi. These companies glide low and are happy to stay that way for the most part. Perpetually shrouded in mystery to some extent because they rely mostly upon word of mouth for sales, they rarely do shows or spend on advertising and generally keep all superfluous costs to a minimum. No affiliations.
Edits: 10/25/14
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