[sdiy] The extreme low cost of audio gear

[karl dalen]

 --- Rude 66 <r.lekx at chello.nl> skrev: 

> nah.. this is only a temporary problem. 

I dont second that, as long a you have a millions and millions
of very highly educated and skilled chinese and indian engineers
willing to work for 1/3 of you sallary there is no chance of
specialisations, because there will be not enough of such 
employment moments to employ those large numbers of engineers.
And when there is the Indian and chinese specialist are still 1/3
as expencive as you are!!!

> in these so called 'low wage
> countries' the wages go up as soon as things are going well.
> if there's no way you can compete as a country with cheap labour from
> something like, say, china, you'll have to do something else. specialize.

> i do second the quality issue, though.. it's one of my main problems with
> mixers like behringers etc. you know where else you really see that? sound
> cards. i'm testing a new firewire card here, and the 1st thing i noticed
> were the in and outs were not tied to the box with a nut, but are only
> soldered on the board for support. and it's not the only one.

You also have the opposite thing aswell, there is many people who buys
the berhingers due to the low cost and gladly buy a new one when they
broke down,very much the same sittuation that happened with inc jet 
printers, its baerly no meaning to buy a set of incjet cartridges
no more, i can simply buy a new printer for almost no extra money.
(im talking of low cost printers). Still they print wery good and
works fine, compare that to low cost Beringhers, btw the mixer desks
i was seeing in the catalog was not of beringher brand!!!

KD

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