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The BS8 is three times dearer. Profit profit profit taken from the rich man! Tod Daniel:. Most of the modern luxury clothing brands now manufacture in China. Most consumer electronic developers do, too. There's a reason beyond pricing - it's supply. Apple will demand a certain amount of stock for their retail stores and there are only a few manufacturers capable of tooling up and producing product in quantity.

Just get used to it and, if you don't think the brand is for you, move on. If the BeoSound 8 was truly manufactured and assembled every last process - all the way in Struer, Denmark.. There are a couple of people on this board who are always complaining about the price of the BS8 - they say it needs to be even cheaper.

You receive speakers close to BL quality. Particularly software issues BV7, BS5 etc. And, as Brits love to consume and seek the cheapest prices , we'd have more of a piece of the pie, if we weren't to blame for our own purchasing decisions:.

Probem with the general public, is that they want everything to be cheaper and cheaper, so they can consume more, more often, but they want a Swiss-made watch or a Danish TV in return. I don't believe I have been to the Apple store in Covent Garden but I assume they sell the same Apple products as all the other stores. All Apple products are made in China and almost everything in an Apple store is made in China.

If customers are not interested in Beosound 8 in the Apple store, there must be some other reason. BS8 is selling OK in apple stores - not sure about worldwide, but certainly enough or apple to be happy. Also - the idea suggested here by some that apple buyers shun Chinese-made products with a premium price over "multibrand" is joke, surely.

I don't think people realise that these days some of the best factories in the world are in China! China has the money and infrastructure to spend large amounts of dollars on the best machinery in the world. They create amazing factories that can make anything, you just tell them the specs and the cost price. You can take absolutely anything to China, and you will find at least one factory that will be able to reproduce it to the exact same quality and specifications for a lot lower price.

So much so, that you wouldn't even see the difference! I think people should get off their high horses about Chinese manufacturing, just like they did in the 80's about Japanese manufacturing.. I agree with Dkatz. I see no other reason for moving production to China other than cost cutting and production volume. Logic and experience tells me, to do that, there has to be a compromise — That being quality.

Terry - I am not saying that the Chinese are not capable of producing products. This is obvious with Apple products which are not bade quality to say the least but they are low level consumer products. The problem is that when you outsource you lose control because it is not your factory anymore.

Yes they can try to be stringent and to an extent get somewhat decent quality but the BS8 does not commensurate the cost. Moxxey — I have a lot of knowledge in manufacturing!

I wrote my dissertation on outsourcing manufacturing to developing countries and on top of the years of research I have done, I have also visited dozens of factories around the world! British manufacturing is of excellent quality as is German. There will always be certain products which will lack in reliability as some British cars or even BMWs which are known for electrical problems.

I have a Lotus which is handmade in Hethel, England and I love my car. I love knowing that the people who built it went through apprenticeship schemes training for years, that they are passionate about the company they work for and the cars they build.

It's not something one can say about a company that hires people for tiny wages to build whatever for hundreds of companies like robots. Apple differ from other manufacturers as you mentioned but they are still low level consumer products and reflect the cost. I will highly disagree with you on what you said about British workers not being interested in manufacturing. Most have been laid off because of outsourcing, it's not like companies are trying to produce in Britain but there are not enough workers to do the job.

You are gravely mistaken if you think there are not extremely high quality and good British products. Look at Genesis car amplifiers which are completely handbuilt even the circuit boards are hand soldered in England. Their amplifiers are not that much more expensive than other brands which are made in China, yet they still turn a profit and the workers there are proud of their work. The companies are not trying to save the consumers money, they are trying to fill their pockets with lots more money!

Hence there is a fallacy in your statement that it's all because consumers want cheaper products In terms of luxury brands, I don't consider Armani a luxury brand. Real luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Hermes don't outsource to China. My John Lobb shoes are bench made in England and so are Edward Greens which are the highest quality ready to wear shoes. There are so many insanely good quality British products that nobody can dispute.

Rolls Royce is perhaps the best quality handcrafted car in the world, there are so many amazing products coming out of manufacturing in Britain that you would be surprised. Sunspel is another example, they make some of the best quality underwear in the world made in England! These are all truly high quality brands! I don't worry about share prices or boardmembers or the CEO.

This is exactly the problem with a lot of companies these days. They worry about their shareholders more than they do their consumers or their employees for that matter.

If they can turn a higher profit and become mufti-millionaires In the process then why not make a higher profit? Who cares about the local community that suffers look what happened to Detroit after GM pulled out to go to Mexico, thousands lost their livelihoods, many of whom worked for generations at GM and the poverty that is then laid on to it or that the cities livelihood depends on its manufacturing sector? As I mentioned Apple is an exception due to supply although cost is greatly reduced and profit margins are a lot higher.

Although there are companies that manage to mass produce at a low cost and still meet supply and demand. They charge about the same and actually less than many comparable brands that are made in China. There are always products you can buy for a comparable price that are made in the developed world.

They still have a high profit margin and even produce their own plastics and parts for the vacuum in house! I would rather pay a little bit more and buy the Beolab speakers which are not made in China and hook them up to my MP3 player or computer and have better quality sound than some ipod deck though. Bang and Olufsen users are used to the prices they pay for these products, who else would shell out 10, for a TV or speaker system? The point is by making these lower price goods they are lowering their standards as a brand.

Why is it that jumbo jet engines are made in their factory in England and not in China? There is a reason for it and it's called quality! There are many many other companies that do not lower their standards, do not outsource and do not market to the masses in order to fill their pockets with cash and their shareholders with dreams: Opera Loudspeakers — made in italy, Genesis Car Amplifiers- Made in England, FaitalPro — Made in Italy All of these companies make their products almost completely by hand, even soldering the circuit boards by hand!

I respect transparency, I respect companies that pay good wages and take care of their employees. And this is why the designers turn to the anodic coating specialists at Factory 5 early in the development phase. We have a designer-driven business and that's why we are the most advanced aluminium factory. You couldn't outsource this kind of production to any other company They would run away screaming.

Sign up to be a part of our global community, offering you a world of exclusive benefits. Navigation and Content Skip to main content Skip to main footer. Beosound Edge Sound revolution Select a colour Natural. Brass Tone. Bronze Tone. A legacy of material innovation Curiosity. Inside the factory Inside Factory 5, cutters, grinders and steel transporters provide the soundtrack, while yellow lines on the grey floor mark off the work stations in which sheets and tubes of aluminium are transformed with an alchemist touch.

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It did not prove as successful as its more flamboyantly designed predecessors. The dense forest of city names sprawls out in a fan pattern, making unlikely frequency neighbors out of such disparate locations as Tokyo and Daventry, or Tirana and Toulouse. The materials used are still primarily hard-wearing, heavy-duty stuff: solid wood and leather with the addition of some plastic for the knobs. Earliest example of a clock radio?

You could pull out arms from its side and then wheel the thing in and out of the living room.