HEGEL - Is it really made in Norway ?

Courant,

I recently heard from a dealer friend in Singapore about another well-known Norwegian high end audio company with a similar attitude. He said he would never go near either of them.

Knghifi-My point is IF Opera Audio(Consonance)is making the Hegel gear they can build very good sounding products. The problem is they(Hegel) are over priced when considering other competing Chinese made gear. The deception comes from the spartan Scandinavian aesthetics which is in contrast to the over the top "goofy" appearance of many Chinese made audio products. This could easily sway the buyer to assume it's made in Norway(I was fooled). If they would just slap a "MADE IN CHINA" label on the gear this thread would cease to exist and we could clearly judge Hegel for what they are!

I hate this blatant slide of hand. It is getting harder to get endemic products built by hand in their country of origin. The only products that I know are Luxman in Japan and McIntosh Labs in NY that still make products that last a lifetime.

Do a little more research and you will find many more than the two products you named!

The problem is they(Hegel) are over priced when considering other competing Chinese made gear.

Exactly. And it seems to me there's a lot of smoke and mirrors with them. With so much good stuff actually made in Europe, why bother with Hegel?