Sony Leaves Japan ?
 

Wanted to know what year Sony started having it's audio produced in other parts of Asia - It seems that the quality went down when they left Tokyo.

Just went to a radio show and decided to search out Japanese Sony and found quite a few - ICF-5500, MR-9100W, CF-580 and several small portables...all from the 70s. They all are so nicely put together and work ! The CF-580 cassette/am/fm is amazing - very classy and built like a tank.

It just seems that when compared to recent Sony equipment, the old stuff much nicer.

Don't quote me, but I think it was in the early 1990s...

Bottom three paragraphs, in the link below, give an overview of production shifting overseas in 1986/87 because of costs.

http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-36/h4.html

"Sony" become just a shitty company. They aren't make products like they used to. I have an "Sony" ICF111 from around 1972 (Germanium tranzistors) and it's very good!
http://www.radiomaritime.com/recepte...ny_ICF111L.jpg
http://www.oldradioworld.de/icf111b.htm

I quoted ya, cause you're right. most common is Made In Malaysia / China
has been that way with sony since I think even the late 80's
by sweat shop workers who care:thmbsp:

Sauce for the goose...

From that site "In line with Sony's principle to manufacture where the market is, Kaneda thought that by setting up a component parts factory, he would generate further market demand."

How about setting up a factory in the USA? Lots of market here... :yes:

Most global companies have little stomach for setting up shop here, unless they can do it where there is a healthy supply of sheeple who can be cowed into working dirt cheap. When a company that wiped out thousands of American jobs has to resort to offshoring jobs from its own country :banana: it smells of such sweet revenge...