I want to be careful with what I say here. Real careful.
Love the instrument. I REALLY love what Rex has done to it cosmetically.
The Serge is one of the best looking systems going, if not the best. So, it
looks terrific, it sounds terrific. No objections so far.
In the days of fully robotic SMT assembly installations being commonplace,
finding qualified people and/or outside houses to expertly assemble through
hole component PCBAs can't be that difficult. After all, we're talking 25
year old technology - which is true for almost every analog module made by
every manufacturer (I am not saying that Serge's stuff is uniquely old
school by any means).
While the man has every right to do anything he pleases, if in fact he is
raising his prices because he can't find qualified individuals for assembly,
I'm not sure he has looked into all the options. I spent 10 years of my
life in this area of electronic manufacturing. There are sub assemblers all
over the place, either offshore, or in the US needing to remain competitive
with those offshore that would manufacturer to mil spec requirements without
necessitating a 30% plus price increase on a product line which was already
robustly priced.
Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about this. It's a shame. Hopefully it's not
placed these fine instruments on the wrong side of the practicality curve.
- Peter
DarkStr717@... wrote:
Love the instrument. I REALLY love what Rex has done to it cosmetically.
The Serge is one of the best looking systems going, if not the best. So, it
looks terrific, it sounds terrific. No objections so far.
In the days of fully robotic SMT assembly installations being commonplace,
finding qualified people and/or outside houses to expertly assemble through
hole component PCBAs can't be that difficult. After all, we're talking 25
year old technology - which is true for almost every analog module made by
every manufacturer (I am not saying that Serge's stuff is uniquely old
school by any means).
While the man has every right to do anything he pleases, if in fact he is
raising his prices because he can't find qualified individuals for assembly,
I'm not sure he has looked into all the options. I spent 10 years of my
life in this area of electronic manufacturing. There are sub assemblers all
over the place, either offshore, or in the US needing to remain competitive
with those offshore that would manufacturer to mil spec requirements without
necessitating a 30% plus price increase on a product line which was already
robustly priced.
Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about this. It's a shame. Hopefully it's not
placed these fine instruments on the wrong side of the practicality curve.
- Peter
DarkStr717@... wrote:
> wow...looks like Rex followed through on his threat. We talked a couple months
> ago and he said he was going to do it but i've heard that rap from him before.
> It's not that he wants more blues playing time or has too many orders. It's
> more along the lines of he can't keep what he considers qualified assemblers
> so in order to keep the trip going he is having to assemble himself and he
> realy doesn't care for it or so i gather. there are a few other philosophical
> considerations going on here as well but there is no point going into them.
> The man has his way of doing things. Personaly i'm surprized he hasn't shut
> down or at least gone to just putting together a fixed number of orders per
> year. Maybe now the panels i have up for sale will seem more like a good
> deal....hahaha... as if they wern't already.
> Kind regards
> John DuVal
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