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An interesting matter in itself, but perhaps an even more interesting general portent within this announcement?
Best of luck to them, but what gets my attention is Emotiva wanting to move at least some manufacturing back into the US. A sign of a changing business climate? I've been expecting that eventually Chinese labor costs would inevitably rise until making everything over there would become a lot less attractive, especially given how difficult the Chinese can be to do business with ethically, besides. The increasing proliferation of ever improving audio products at steadily increasing prices directly under Chinese brand names is indicative, but now I'm hearing more talk about manufacturing here, and it's becoming less nationalistic wishful thinking and more doing, it seems like.
Is America going to get back into manufacturing before we lose the ability to do this? I'm not really big on patriotic rah-rah but we really have to stop outsourcing everything before it's too late. Hi-end audio, at least, has been one area in which we held on, so let's not make that a "was an area in which we held on" lament. So I have to consider this good news.