Chinese Amp Importers

I bought a load of stuff from these guys a few years back:

http://www.tdaudio.com/en/index.asp

These cabs:

http://www.tdaudio.com/en/TM15II.htm

And amps:

http://www.tdaudio.com/en/EX3400.htm

Good quality build on everything and they were easy to deal with and very cheap shipping costs. I lost the cabs in a fire , but all the amps are still going strong. I´d try them.

Don't encourage it.

What, cutting out the middle man?

I understand what you´re saying, but 90% (or more?) of our electronics comes from there, so it´s very difficult. I´d love to see a 'native' industry again - but also remember some very poor quality 'Made in the UK' products. I do hope that the present crisis will make everyone look again at the economic model we´ve built and change things, but it seems to me that, at least in the UK, the banks and vapourware economy still rules.

Also, the stuff I bought was not, imho, your typical cheapo crap. It was being sold at silly prices at a place in France, so I went direct. The cost to bring the stuff to Europe was very cheap, but I still had to pay import taxes, VAT, etc, so made my contribution to the exchequer!

China will not always be cheap, but at the moment they are cheaper. However, they don't have to pay for designing or development, they just rip people off, and the people who buy will always feed that situation.

I agree with tony. this country needs it, but also agree with Lev .. its a rip off people importing chinese gear and rebranding it for 3x's the cost .. this country really does need  to start producing more .. we produce some of the best designers and engineers etc in the world .. but look at our industry .. even sheffield steel is up the swanny.. we need to be exporting .. not importing

JohnnyPyro wrote: I agree with tony. this country needs it, but also agree with Lev .. its a rip off people importing chinese gear and rebranding it for 3x's the cost .. this country really does need  to start producing more .. we produce some of the best designers and engineers etc in the world .. but look at our industry .. even sheffield steel is up the swanny.. we need to be exporting .. not importing

Unfortunately, regarding UK manufacturing, Elvis has already left the building.

We can applaud years of governments mistreating UK businesses for this.

Consider the company Darq for instance. Bringing in Pallet loads of amps and speakers from China, charging upto 4x times China price, stating amps were manufactured in UK, even using Soundstandard production pics, saying it was UK factory.

They got dealt with by Crest, but other UK companies are now more sophisticated. Still just rebadging rip offs, and charging 'big dolah', as it's easy money.