comradekingu
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The Fiio E7 had good build quality and decent sound. Since then they have failed a fair few times on the electrical engineering. Trademark 'made in china' trait. Opening and testing electronics made in China can either reveal great things, or mind-bogglingly dangerous, or anything in between.
That is just how it is, and you just gain awareness of it. If it all of a sudden changed there would be an added caveat to the year it happened.
You get a lot of free will by assimilating into convention. I could be the best oboo-maker in the world, but I would get the same benefit of the doubt as a ski-maker in sub Saharan Africa.
Saying a consumer electronic product is 'made in Germany' is not nationalist, then you would maybe say all-though peculiarly "made by a German, in Germany", which however way you want to see it, costs the same at the base level, since you cant sneak-import a lot of foreign workers into Germany. So if you are paying the same as "the doctor that is male", then that is what you have to compete with.
Just as I imagine mechanics made in Switzerland, doesn't imply the French part, because as people will point out to you, "whole different country". Anyone can set up shop there, and it is a tough sell, if only a easy way to be the one who isn't swiss in precision.
'Made in Germany' is a statement, factually so, not something that happens by accident. Certainly with something like laptops, they are currently all made in China(?) So its a very conscious decision. A thought-provoking one at that.
It is implied also that its not done in a sweat-shop with people coming in from other regions to do the work, for no other reason than to save money. That is at-least the regard it is held to and perceived as.
In China the stuff for export is exactly that. Rural farmers coming to the city to make electronics for the export market in much the same fashion slave-labour would be brought into other nearby countries.
Their internal electronics regulations are top notch, so all of a sudden "made in china" needs a qualifier to attest its intended market.
"If you cant talk to the manager, you are not a valued customer" or however the saying goes.
If you aren't a shot-caller in China, your schedule can get pushed back easily. Try that in Germany and its not the same thing. Small customers and service is what GC does. Assembled in Germany means that part of it is on schedule.
To say it doesn't matter where things are made, is just as easy to take in bad faith as stating it, and when it comes down to it, not at all irrelevant.
Your neighbour is as much a 'citizen of the world' as anyone else, but its still part of what makes travel exiting that you accept leaving your door a regional affair. The notion of countries if you will, currently mean cultural differences.
Germany has the best engineering in the world. Something people are aware of. They also know there are bad engineers and good ones in any country, but still, and rightly so, it serves as a frame of reference. ED is goodguy 10/10 on his service, but most people don't know, so you can't go "managed by EvilDragon" and "engineered by hns" and expect it to carry as much weight. Even though it does and more to the ones in the know, and technically covers 100% of intended scope.
ED and hns make mistakes like anyone else. Liking what they do isn't a person cultus, its what they get for being consistent. 'Made in Bavaria' approved.
That is just how it is, and you just gain awareness of it. If it all of a sudden changed there would be an added caveat to the year it happened.
You get a lot of free will by assimilating into convention. I could be the best oboo-maker in the world, but I would get the same benefit of the doubt as a ski-maker in sub Saharan Africa.
Saying a consumer electronic product is 'made in Germany' is not nationalist, then you would maybe say all-though peculiarly "made by a German, in Germany", which however way you want to see it, costs the same at the base level, since you cant sneak-import a lot of foreign workers into Germany. So if you are paying the same as "the doctor that is male", then that is what you have to compete with.
Just as I imagine mechanics made in Switzerland, doesn't imply the French part, because as people will point out to you, "whole different country". Anyone can set up shop there, and it is a tough sell, if only a easy way to be the one who isn't swiss in precision.
'Made in Germany' is a statement, factually so, not something that happens by accident. Certainly with something like laptops, they are currently all made in China(?) So its a very conscious decision. A thought-provoking one at that.
It is implied also that its not done in a sweat-shop with people coming in from other regions to do the work, for no other reason than to save money. That is at-least the regard it is held to and perceived as.
In China the stuff for export is exactly that. Rural farmers coming to the city to make electronics for the export market in much the same fashion slave-labour would be brought into other nearby countries.
Their internal electronics regulations are top notch, so all of a sudden "made in china" needs a qualifier to attest its intended market.
"If you cant talk to the manager, you are not a valued customer" or however the saying goes.
If you aren't a shot-caller in China, your schedule can get pushed back easily. Try that in Germany and its not the same thing. Small customers and service is what GC does. Assembled in Germany means that part of it is on schedule.
To say it doesn't matter where things are made, is just as easy to take in bad faith as stating it, and when it comes down to it, not at all irrelevant.
Your neighbour is as much a 'citizen of the world' as anyone else, but its still part of what makes travel exiting that you accept leaving your door a regional affair. The notion of countries if you will, currently mean cultural differences.
Germany has the best engineering in the world. Something people are aware of. They also know there are bad engineers and good ones in any country, but still, and rightly so, it serves as a frame of reference. ED is goodguy 10/10 on his service, but most people don't know, so you can't go "managed by EvilDragon" and "engineered by hns" and expect it to carry as much weight. Even though it does and more to the ones in the know, and technically covers 100% of intended scope.
ED and hns make mistakes like anyone else. Liking what they do isn't a person cultus, its what they get for being consistent. 'Made in Bavaria' approved.
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