Mcintosh, of course :)
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@hilde45 great question as I will bet that many are buying their chips from China, or EU. |
@hilde45 From the Schiit website, The vast majority of our parts, on a total cost basis, come from right here in the USA, from companies manufacturing their products in the USA
If I recall correctly, anything they can buy from an American company, they do, but there are some things not made here and they have no choice but to buy elsewhere. It's good Schiit. |
Most of my gear was American made, Benchmark, KRELL, and CODA. I sold the KRELL and CODA recently but will be buying another KRELL amp soon. It was a coin flip between the CODA #16 and a KRELL XD amp. I like my Benchmark DAC3B a lot though it is not my best overall DAC. It works the best on a particular tube headphone amp. |
+1 for Wyred 4 Sound. As was mentioned their DACs have received a lot of love over the years and have been on my list of DACs to try. Recently I was able to pick up a used DAC 2 DSDse for ~$900 and have been absolutely loving it. For another $1k I can have it upgraded to the latest specs but for as well as it is working in my system I’m going to keep enjoying it as is for now and spend the money on other upgrades. |
I don't typically take the country of origin into consideration as much as I take the company's focus on on quality products and ethical treatment of others. I have acquired all of audio gear from a audio retailer - the largest store being Tweeters in the 80s. Made in America is nice and a local audio store that services warranty and has a trade-in program I value more than country of origin. That's my approach - and growing up 10 miles from Canada and half the family being Canadian I tend to lump 'North America' companies as American. I've owned a variety of manufactures including US (McIntosh, Parasound); Canadian (Bluesound, Mirage, Moon, NAD), UK (Rega), German (Dual), Italy (Sonus faber), Japan (Denon, Yamaha). And I've bough all my equipment through local audio retailer.
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Carlsbad, the Wyred4Sound 10th anniversary dac is phenomenal sounding, one of the reviewers put it up against his VPI turntable with a $5,000 Japanese cartridge and he said it was every bit as analog sounding and I bought one and I have to totally agree most analog sounding DAC that I've had in my system and it's only $4,500 US and it beat up on a lot of more expensive dacs in testing. |
@papioaf same time! Crazy |
@mrskeptic Yes, they're quite the company in this regard. But most other companies are not, and most people are not asking about internal parts. Ideology quickly runs into the brick wall of practicality or is revealed as a surface-level preference. |
I doubt there’s any American designed and built DAC that has all American parts in it. Just like GM is an American company, but it’s vehicles are built from parts from all over the world and they are assembled in several places outside of the US. Ford and Tesla, same story. It’s pretty much the way of the world of business these days. |
I second the Schiit recommendations. I just upgraded my Bifrost 2 to the 2/64 version and it made an improvement in clarity and imaging with my Fyne F702 speakers, Rogue Audio RP-7 preamp, and Benchmark AHB2 amp … well worth the $100 increase in price for a new model. Of course, there are other, more expensive options made in the USA, as others have said, but Schiit does make good Schiit, right here in the USA. |
@rsf507 +1 My experience as well. "very flat" it never caused me to become "part of the music" just my 2 cents, but that's it. Regards, barts |
