HEGEL - Is it really made in Norway ?

"08-30-15: Aolmrd1241
If one would do the r-e-s-e-a-r-c-h necessary to make a adequate buying decision based on needs and wants, then this whole post on 'made in China' would be moot.

If you bought a Chinese made product under the 'assumption' that it was made in [insert your country of origin here] then... shame on you.

Google is your friend people... Or at least a phone call to the manufacturer in question."

I agree. The OP should never have went and bought a Hegel product before he knew for sure what all the facts were. Now he's stuck with something he doesn't want, and is complaining like a little kid because of it.

This is becoming one of the goofiest threads ever.

Deception? Only if the gear is stamped �Made In Norway,� which by all accounts it is not. And please, the bit about the case aesthetic being deceptive is just plain silly. Next up we'll be hearing that Chinese-made cars should have three or five wheels to distinguish them from others.

Back-handed jibes at quality and/or reliability from those who have never owned one, save one person who had some sort of bad experience with the brand? Concerns about �value� and talk about Rolexes, when their most expensive amplifiers are $10K so not exactly in the FM Acoustics/Soulution/D'Agostino bracket? C'mon, man�

Knghifi and Sabai have owned the gear and are entitled to speak as to quality. Everything else is speculation. I'm not a fan of all Chinese manufactured products myself, but I own enough of them to know that some are very reliable and very well built, while others have been junk. I can say the same about a lot of made in U.S.A. products I've purchased too.

Seems like a lot of xenophobia/subtle racism is popping up in this thread (and I'm lily-White so not my ax to grind, just an observation). If you want to make a trade imbalance/theft of trade secrets/toleration of unequal trading conditions/global economic policy argument against the prevalence of cheap Chinese manufactured goods dominating world markets that's one thing, but no one here has managed to demonstrate that there is the slightest thing wrong with this brand. And I say this with zero personal interest in the products and no intent of ever owning them.

It is the right of the consumer to know the country of manufacture of the products to be purchased. It is one of the parameters that affects the decision to buy or not. Hegel knows this and decided to hide this information from the buyer when the same buyer knows very well the origin of the tomatoes and the t-shirts he buys.
This is a cheap trick and very bad marketing practice.

One valuable lesson to be gained from this thread is to never feed your pets electronic components made in China- especially Hegel products.

I've had products made in China. They're big in ISO9000 compliance, but you really need someone representing your company watching the product coming off the assembly line. Otherwise, substandard parts and quality problems can seap in with very little recourse if you've let inventories build up. But it's a per-customer/per-manufacturer issue, and too big to generalize.