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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 1941" data-attributes="member: 34">Let&#039;s consider the Audiopile C006 trunk with the stacking dishes. Now, let&#039;s consider the cost of building one of these from scratch using parts from Penn Elcom. Now, consider quantity 6 either way, getting every discount possible.Guess what? No matter how you spin it, it&#039;s still way more money just to buy the parts from Penn than it is to buy them already done from Audiopile. Remember, this is excluding all the time and labor to build them myself.What&#039;s the difference in quality? Well, steel is steel, aluminum is aluminum, and ABS laminated plywood is pretty much ABS laminated plywood. Sure, the assembly quality may suffer a bit on the imported cases, but enough to justify building my own? I really don&#039;t think so.It just sucks that American companies have no chance at competing these days.edit: I&#039;m not bashing Audiopile at all - nor Penn - I don&#039;t mind buying from either, and both have a lot of great people working for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 1941, member: 34"] Let's consider the Audiopile C006 trunk with the stacking dishes. Now, let's consider the cost of building one of these from scratch using parts from Penn Elcom. Now, consider quantity 6 either way, getting every discount possible. Guess what? No matter how you spin it, it's still way more money just to buy the [I]parts [/I]from Penn than it is to buy them already done from Audiopile. Remember, this is excluding all the time and labor to build them myself. What's the difference in quality? Well, steel is steel, aluminum is aluminum, and ABS laminated plywood is pretty much ABS laminated plywood. Sure, the assembly quality may suffer a bit on the imported cases, but enough to justify building my own? I really don't think so. It just sucks that American companies have no chance at competing these days. edit: I'm not bashing Audiopile at all - nor Penn - I don't mind buying from either, and both have a lot of great people working for them. [/QUOTE]

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