From: rogerw@world.std.com (Roger A Williams)
Subject: Re: Adcom cheap products?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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mdonahue@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike Donahue) writes:


>I do NOT know much about Adcom Mobil Audio products, but I DO know for a fact
>that ADCOM does NOT make its own "High End" Home Audio Equptment and that 80%+
>of it comes directly out of Tiawan...

Like most high-volume manufacturers, Adcom has most of its PC boards
assembled off-shore (in their case, mostly in the far east).  Final
assembly _and testing_ are done in East Brunswick.

The products are, and have always been, designed entirely in the US;
by their own staff and by audiophile gurus like Walter Jung.  Adcom
also tends to prefer American and European components over their
Japanese/Far East equivalents.

Off-shore assembly is one reason that Adcom is able to make products
that perform as well as those from people like Audio Research and Van
Alstine (and better than Hafler and Forte'), but at a much lower cost.

Of course, if your musical diet consists mostly of Rock, you might
prefer components from Kenwood or Pioneer...

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