Originally Posted by mikeg
I only used China symbolically. There are lots of other countries that this type of project can be subcontracted to. Are Germany, the US, and Japan the only countries that can assemble a high quality electrostatic headphone? I doubt it.
my goodness - why do you persist in going down this narrow (and lonely) path??!
do you have any idea of the
logistics,
let alone the cost, of starting an overseas operation? who is he going to hire? will he have to import talent? what about salaries? equipment? tax on that equipment? existing customers (and contracts) these subcontractors already have? language barriers? duties? taxes (overseas and local)? materials? QC? all it will take is
one bad product to sink the hard-earned reputation of a boutique company like grado amongst newcomers to hifi. how many times is he going to have to come over each year to supervise things? how much is a return ticket to any european country? or singapore? or korea?
building an electrostat is not as easy as following A, then B, then C, then...
and all that for a market that is way smaller than that for dynamic headphones!
i can understand your desire to see grado soar - i honestly wish that too.
but like icarus, i do not wish that desire to fly high be its undoing.