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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. |
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Don't quote me, but I think it was in the early 1990s...
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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 |
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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
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"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 |
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How about setting up a factory in the USA? Lots of market here...
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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 it smells of such sweet revenge...
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Sauce for the goose...
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