[quote user="Mr10Percent"] [quote user="Puncher"] Could this be because of a legislative standby power requirement similar to the main speaker range? [/quote] I thought it was because it was made in China! [/quote] Don't start!

Could this be because of a legislative standby power requirement similar to the main speaker range?

I would prefer to limit the discussion to B&O who are a Danish owned company with premises in Denmark and Czech and who outsource production of some lower priced items to Chinese third parties. They have recently suffered some financial difficulties and undergone some restructuring to try and improve the operating margin such that they actually

[quote user="tournedos"]Also, I can assure John != Jonathan[/quote] Just so that there's absolutely no confusion ............. the operator "!=" means "is not equal to".

@Dkatz - since everything you mention is hypothetical and idealistic, can I ask if B&O were to open their own factory in China would you then concede that the product produced were real B&O, worthy of the brand? I ask since it seems its OK to produce anywhere in Europe as long as B&O owns the building.

[quote user="Dkatz"]Perpahs Chelsea is not an English team either since it's owned by a Russian businessmen by your logic? Or many British football teams for that matter.[/quote] Defintely dodgy ground now, Chelsea, Man City, even Liverpool and Man Utd ................ all foreign owned and defintely non - English. In fact Man U and Liverpool

[quote user="Dkatz"]The apprenticeship and training schemes I was talking about were ones they would have in Struer, Czech and other places in Europe to train factory workers to assemble the products.[/quote] I can't speak of what happens in Struer, or their Czech facility for that matter, but I can speak about light engineering firms

[quote user="Bentleyman"] [quote user="Jonathan"] Rolls Royce - GERMAN, Bentley - GERMAN, [/quote] Jonathan, Obviously the RR and Bentley marques are now, since 1998, owned by German companies. They are ' owned ' by German companies. That does not make them German cars however, since they are made at Goodwood and Crewe, by

I do believe so!

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