Since when Primare product manufacture in china ?

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I have concern about QC ......

Thank you .

 

[chebby]

Apple Mac reliability improved after production moved to Shenzhen.

QC is as good as manufacturers want it to be (and are prepared to pay for) wherever a product is made.

From what I can find, Primare have had products made in China and Taiwan since 2000. I cannot link the Feb 2009 article here because it is from a rival hifi magazine but it is available on the Primare website as a PDF document.

 

[John Duncan]

I couldn't tell you where my Primares were made, but most of the best hifi I've owned has been made in China...

 

[Andy Clough]

... and having visited quite a few hi-fi factories in China, I can assure you they'd put some I've seen in other parts of the world to shame.

 

[Clare Newsome]

I'll second that!

Sad to say, but the most poorly built product we've seen in recent times was made in Britain

 

[plastic penguin]

Does this mean that China is vying to be the new Japan?

 

[Andy Clough]

Well, the days when anything made in China was cheap and cheerful are well and truly over. You might be surprised by how many 'British' brands now manufacture in the Far East. Some of the speakers I've seen made in China looked exquisite.

 

[Mike_Schmidt]

I agree the plants in China is one of the old wise tales of past that is slowly dying. There is a reason why almost all electronic anything is made there or near a neighboring country.

 

[Scissor_digits]

I've nothing against kit being manufactured in China, much of their production capacity is in fairly new, reasonably state of the art facilities.

What I have an issue with is companies who trade on their "Britishness" and expect their customers to pay a premium for goods manufactured in the far east

 

[chebby]

Scissor_digits:What I have an issue with is companies who trade on their "Britishness" and expect their customers to pay a premium for goods manufactured in the far east

Primare are Swedish

 

[John Duncan]

chebby:
Scissor_digits:What I have an issue with is companies who trade on their "Britishness" and expect their customers to pay a premium for goods manufactured in the far east

Primare are Swedish

Though they do trade on their Swedishness

 

[chebby]

Perhaps Naim should trade on their Wiltshire-ness?

The "Naim Swindon" speakers or the "Devizes DAC". "The Wroughton Reference"?

I would love a "Chippenham CD5i"

(On the other hand, Rega are better off keeping their Essex-ness quiet I think!)

 

[John Duncan]

Oh my in-laws would buy the Wroughton Reference. But then they're like that. If only Moon were based down there, they could make the Raker CD player...

 

[Clare Newsome]

chebby:
Perhaps Naim should trade on their Wiltshire-ness?

The "Naim Swindon" speakers or the "Devizes DAC". "The Wroughton Reference"?

I would love a "Chippenham CD5i"

(On the other hand, Rega are better off keeping their Essex-ness quiet I think!)

Oi, less of the Essex jibes - white stilettos can be a dangerous weapon

 

[chebby]

JohnDuncan:Oh my in-laws would buy the Wroughton Reference. But then they're like that. If only Moon were based down there, they could make the Raker CD player...

Pub or legend?

Last three times in Wroughton (all in the last year) I drank at the Fox & Hounds. (Arkells)

 

[chebby]

A prototype Naim AV-BRY garden speaker...

 

[John Duncan]

Clare Newsome:chebby:
Perhaps Naim should trade on their Wiltshire-ness?

The "Naim Swindon" speakers or the "Devizes DAC". "The Wroughton Reference"?

I would love a "Chippenham CD5i"

(On the other hand, Rega are better off keeping their Essex-ness quiet I think!)

Oi, less of the Essex jibes - white stilettos can be a dangerous weapon

As Shilpa Shetty has found?

 

[Gort1951]

Wharfedale - owned by a Chinese company, built in China and I think designed in China. Don't know if they employ British engineers.

They've just been swallowed up.

Wharfedale, Quad, AudioLab, Mission,Castle Acoustics + loads more are owned by IAG (International Audio Group) who are Chinese.

http://www.internationalaudiogroup.com/index.php

I wonder if the same speaker drivers are shared between each brand?

Sad really that nothing is really British anymore, designed in Britain, built in China = more unemployment in the UK, then you have to pay import duties to bring a British product into this country.

Perhaps we make good tea-boys.

 

[Anonymous]

JohnDuncan:I couldn't tell you where my Primares were made, but most of the best hifi I've owned has been made in China...

I agree totally, John. I used to own a Classic 6.6 Integrated Amplifier from China, and it was miles better than my Roksan Kandy LIII and Primare A20 MkII. Killer looks and killer sound.....and totally reliable!
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