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<blockquote data-quote="Riley Casey" data-source="post: 217476" data-attributes="member: 125"><p>From the little bit of reading I&#039;ve done on the subject it&#039;s not unusual for Chinese manufacturing facilities to sell off their B stock of otherwise genuine US or European branded products to brokers or other middle men who then shop them out as the actual product. With any Chinese products that aren&#039;t under some sort of quality control be it from a western brand or their own brand if no one is responsible for the product down the road then it&#039;s not likely that consistency is going to be maintained over the production run because QC costs money. No idea if SRX712 or VRX932s are even made in China versus say Mexico but as long as the maker can turn out something that looks the part and sound &#039;close&#039; they have no reason to put in the extra time and expense of sounding right. I gather that most neodymium is mined in China these days so I expect that&#039;s extra incentive to manufacture portable speakers there.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Riley Casey, post: 217476, member: 125"] From the little bit of reading I've done on the subject it's not unusual for Chinese manufacturing facilities to sell off their B stock of otherwise genuine US or European branded products to brokers or other middle men who then shop them out as the actual product. With any Chinese products that aren't under some sort of quality control be it from a western brand or their own brand if no one is responsible for the product down the road then it's not likely that consistency is going to be maintained over the production run because QC costs money. No idea if SRX712 or VRX932s are even made in China versus say Mexico but as long as the maker can turn out something that looks the part and sound 'close' they have no reason to put in the extra time and expense of sounding right. I gather that most neodymium is mined in China these days so I expect that's extra incentive to manufacture portable speakers there. [/QUOTE]

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