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They are driven by Arcam AV950 + Arcam P777, the 802 are bi-amped with Tellurium Q Ultra Black cables. Stereo and surround sound absolutly perfect to my ears. |
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Wow, sweet set-up, musicjunkie! I bet it sounds fantastic! I love Arcam with B&W. I have the A19 paired with a set of 683S2s and enjoy it very much.
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One is made in China. One is not. That ends the discussion for me. edit: Sidebar. If you're going to go down to the monoblock road, the McIntosh MC601s are about the best bang for the buck there is for anything *not* made in China at their power and performance level. Last edited by playdrv4me; 06-02-2016 at 09:28 PM. |
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What's being made in China have to do with anything?
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After visiting Classé in Montreal in April, I came to realize something about modern high-tech manufacturing. All the real work is in the research and development, and that's what the design team in Montreal does. Thousands of hours go into each new product, and the design team consists of engineers and technicians Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe. A global design team if you will. As Classé assembles everything in their own facility in Zhuhai, the only thing North American assembly would add is additional cost.
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Off topic, how'bout a little tease about the new Classe Delta range and when it will be released... |
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Hi Allman77,
2017. That's the limit of my prognostication. Regards, Patrick |
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It has nothing to do with anything if I'm buying an iPad, but it matters to me. These aren't commodity off the shelf boomboxes. If you're paying luxury dollars for luxury products... the SAME luxury dollars you paid before if not more, for the company to build products in a facility that costs *THEM* less money but those savings aren't passed on to YOU. What the hell is the point? I have made this exact same argument over on the Bang and Olufsen forums where it's even MORE egregious. Those are sold as not just audio, but luxury lifestyle products from the word GO.
When I'm paying a premium for a product I don't personally care about saving the producing company money in production. For that matter I can just buy cheaper gear. Part of what I'm paying for is the higher cost of production and providing an economy for the skilled craftspeople and assembly workers in the home countries of those companies. If I pay you more for your luxury product, part of that luxury comes from knowing my product isn't being made alongside everyone else's commodity product. That's not to say that I have a problem with LOWER end lines being produced in China. B&O's play line, B&W's iPod speaker things up to the CM Series, the Classe Delta line for example. Just not the primary lines. It's easy to articulate all day long that as long as the R&D is happening stateside or Canada or Denmark or whatever that the end product "will be just fine". But that's not what I'm paying you extra for. This was reinforced to me when I was selling my Classe CP-800 a while back and got numerous people who asked me "Is it the made in china or made in canada version?". Once I said China they'd just evaporate. The simplest example of this is Rolex. If Rolex began producing watches in China today. Their business would crumble within months and anyone who says any different, regardless if the watch was "just as good as it was before" is smoking crack. I consider Classe and McIntosh similarly premium products. If I want Chinese made I'll just buy Emotiva and save *literally* thousands. Fortunately, McIntosh so far have avoided this error. Last edited by playdrv4me; 06-07-2016 at 01:01 AM. |
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What did you have as a center before the htm1d3? Tony |
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