HEGEL - Is it really made in Norway ?

Just for an FYI...I emailed Hegel a few days back on 8-28 about this thread,hoping that they could or would chime in. Their response was...

"Oh, goodness me� Thanks for the link.
Best regards
Hegel � Anders"

I guess they are not intereseted in clearing up the controversy.

What is unforgivable, however, is to not stand behind your product when something does go wrong, and what I heard here would definitely give me in buying any Hegel product.

Sure if it's true. There are always TWO sides to a story.

Remember, this is the internet, anonymity behind a monitor and on a keyboard so all we got to evaluate is contents of their posts. For all we know, they could be in a funny farm.

Soix you made some very valid points. However I need to respond to your "Where I differ a bit from some here is in the assertion that Hegel is charging too much for a product made in China"

This is highly subjective of course and if for you (as you have demonstrated) the whole package (product, service, build quality, manufacturer origin and price) is worth your hard-earn dollar, then its fine.

This whole thread is NOT about made-in-china quality or even about service.

It is about the customer making his own purchasing mind based on product information that is presented clearly and plainly. And manufacturers (all of them) have a role to play in this. That's all it is really.

China can make some excellent products at great prices, including Hegel, this is not the debate at hand here.

The Absolute Sound staff Kirk Midtskog visited Hegel R&D offices in Oslo and wrote the following article http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/visit-to-hegel-music-systems-in-oslo-norway/
Although he wrote all the details about the facilities and the people working there, with an analytical presentation of Bent Holter the head of the company, he never mentions anything about the factory. There is no word about the most important part of a manufacturing company: the factory.
It is clear that Hegel requested from Bent not to mention the "forbidden" word, China.

Well well guess what? At the end of this article in the Absolute Sound, there is this question asked by a certain question asked by a reader, and this question is 2 years old already: "Hegel is made in China or Norway???"

I guess he is still waiting for an answer.