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Post Subject: Local production of PPPosted by steverino on: 4/16/2013

hifigirlgeek :I have to say that the change to local production does not seem to have done much for either the quality of the goods provided, or their customer service.

I got one of the older units (pre-cluster) and have had no problems with it. The older units are occasionally offered, used of course, on various sites. As for the return of manufacture to Canada, I always thought Purepower's explanation either to be bogus or naive. Although not a production engineer myself, my job at one point involved me tangentially in production/assembly issues. It is difficult enough to completely transfer production from one location and staff to another, but to also change the design at the same time was guaranteed to raise quality control issues if nothing else. Also the idea that the costs were not going to rise producing an equivalent or better component begs the question of why they off-loaded production overseas in the first place. But as I said there are sometimes used older models offered for sale.

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