Dayton Audio DTA-100a

[Yesfan70]

.......I am planning to move it to my main PC to drive a pair of PC speakers I intend to build in the next 6 months.

I sense a build thread in the near future.............

 

[Haywood]

That would make a killer amp for an office setup.

 

[Deleted member 133]

India, Taiwan (does that count?), Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea... any others?

All perfectly acceptable.

I wonder if Indonesia and Thailand might have the capability.

I also wonder if we might see certain South American and African countries emerge in future. Brazil and South Africa have very well-established technology industries in certain sectors. In Brazil's case I believe that they have been competitive in the world marketplace at least partly because of their lower-cost manufacturing (ie. labour).

Jeff

ps. And as my Taiwanese contacts and colleagues frequently remind me: "we are NOT China!"

 

[heeman]

http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/C...Canadas_electronics_manufacturing_sector.ashx

Jeff, here is an interesting report from 2006 about Canada and on page 4 is a breakdown of the worlds burdened labor rates.

It is an interesting read.

 

[Botch]

For obvious reasons I am not personally advocating for USA-made goods.

I'm not even advocating for Canadian-made.

As I'm sure everyone is far too well aware of, I advocate for not-made-in-China. Anywhere but there.

And on that basis I'm sure that there are places, other than China, where a company could go to have low end, low cost electronics manufactured.

When Apple was looking for a manufacturer for one of their products (I think it was the iPhone, but can't remember for sure) the Chinese took them on a tour of a brand, spanking-new factory and infrastructure to build the item, before any contracts had been signed. The Chinese guv'mint had built it; it's hard to compete against that (I don't know if any of the other rising manufacturing giants do that also).
The US military-industrial complex has done this since mid-last-century, but at least the competition was held first...

 

[Flint]

Brazil has amazing manufacturing capabilities, but they tend to be better at large machines and items rather than tiny electronics.