There the friendly folks of Bottlehead hang their hats. No longer content to purchase my kit primarily from the (not so) dark satanic mills of Shenzen, in December 2011 I picked up the phone and dialled Bainbridge Island, Washington state. Are you uncomfortable with the idea of low-paid Chinese labour? Look no further than your own- unpaid-labour.Īs the owner of sixteen Chi-Fi products as well as hifi items from the Czech Republic, the UK, Japan and the USA (but no Canadian ones), I've done my share of contributing to Canada’s trade deficit. We have become alienated from the means of musical production. Today they are more likely to wave wands at flat-screen TVs from the overfed comfort of their couches. Gone are the Dynaco days when teenage boys built kit amps in their garages or basements. How many of us have spent an entire Saturday assembling a barbecue or bunch of IKEA furniture? And yet today most of us get 100% of our audio kicks in finished form.
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