Classe move to China


I've just learned that Classe has moved production to China. Has anyone taken delivery of a Made in China Classe product?

Will moving to China devalue the brand? Will quality suffer?

I am thinking of purchasing the new CA-M300 monoblocks, but this move has me hesitating.
fundsgon
Perhaps Classe should build the same amp in Canada and China and sell them at $5,000 and $3,000 respectively and see what people end up buying - I suspect money talks.
01-03-12: Pubul57
LOL, you cannot be that naive. Why would any person in business drop their price $2000 on what is supposedly a $5000 amp. The only reason for lowering the the price of the amp would be to compete with your competition and maybe get a bigger piece of the market pie. The rest of the savings would go in the wallet.....
If America loses this secret war, we (as a world leader) are finished.

The country is already on life support and it will take quite a bit to get it back on its feet, let alone back to its former position as a world economic leader.

Trouble is China is NOT going to be anywhere near the nice guys we were.

Very true, the Chinese government is licking its chops.

(Trouble is we were really not very nice guys,..)

Glad someone realizes this.

As for Lenin, he was bad, but the Tsar's before him and Stalin after him were far worse.
Life support?
Try a dead corpse being fought over by vultures for the scraps.
Jea, market share and sales volume? Unless capitalism doesn't actually
work; though this may be a hobby where paying $2,000 more for the exact
same product may actually make it sound better to the owner.

Slave labor? I hardly think so. Too much Pearl Buck and demonization - at
least for this type of product. Maybe commodities and cheap, low value
added products. True, China's labor practices may be closer to 19th
century US, but not for long, they are squeezing 200 years of development
in 20-30 years.
Pubul57.If Your butt was put in an average Sino factory you would commit suicide within 6 months.