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Classe move to China
Where I'd the Thorazine! 
Active or passive preamp
Dave, how many companies make an AVC using your transformers? Is John C still selling commercially available units? 
Classe move to China
What car is built in SC? I'm going to buy one! 
Help me make sense of what I'm hearing
I would consider the LDR passive approach previously mentioned, your aamp should match up well, and an inexpensive experiment - if you only have one source. 
Classe move to China
Yeah, but would you buy a Classe amp assembled in South Carolina?OK, you got me,I'm kidding. 
Classe move to China
Nonoise, that seems similar to the scandanvian business and societal way of doing things, good products, high wages, educated populations, and relative equality of income - not sure they view the Chineese as competition for their high valued added... 
Classe move to China
Nordic, it might. It even be to increase the margins, it could just as well be to hold the price points they have as imported component parts have gotten more expensive with weakened dollars and loons. I find the price increases of the past 2-3 ye... 
Classe move to China
Boy, I would not want to be a Classe principal reading this thread. Entry level gear might hide on the origin of manufacture, maybe irrelevant or off the radar screen of typical buyers of that level equipment. But if this thread is representative ... 
Classe move to China
We need to buy South Carolina socks, underwear, and toothbrushes? 
Classe move to China
Schubert, that is a really long topic, but if Classe were being made in Germany, I would consider buying it, and VWs only from Wolfsburg. 
Classe move to China
No, but many do buy Chineese made gear under Chineese or British ownership. China has its problems, but it not viewed as an Iran under current regime as moral equivalents. Now a Persian carpet made before 1979? Maybe. 
How does Vandersteen 2CE Sig II compare to Treo?
Ha. Nice looking speakers. If the drivers are the same, I think richard's rationale for the box less design makes sense and the Treo is really addressing aesthetic and WAF factors, not necessarily sonics; wood cabinets do cost a lot. 
Classe move to China
OP, not sure if it will decrease quality, it may or may not, but it will devalue the brand. 
Classe move to China
That sounds very accurate. Accelerated development and catch up at any price. The hope is that a growing middle class will bring about improvements to their society as a whole. It seems a strong middle class is the foundation of progressive societ... 
Classe move to China
Too muddle headed on issues of relevancy to respond. Stalin and Mao were monstrous, that wasn't really the issue and you don't have to persuade me on that count. If you want to believe that Classe amps will be built in a sweatshop with slave labor...