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Heres one for remote start product's. Allthough not US, but still North America.

www.astroflex.com  EVERYTHING else is made "overseas"

Autostart was built in Canada, but now that DEi has gobbed them up, who knows.

US Amps still designs and builds 1 and 1/2 of their line in US.

I believe AVI still builds it speakers in Canada.

JL Audio in Florida, parts from China, assembeded here, does that count?

csnut18 wrote:

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Are you sure memphis car audio is not manufactured in the us? I was almost positive it was

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Why not just contact them and ask??

Kicker.com wrote:

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KICKER Car Audio products are designed and manufactured by Stillwater Designs, headquartered in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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ericgee wrote:

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Kicker.com wrote:
KICKER Car Audio products are designed and manufactured by Stillwater Designs, headquartered in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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i think the key word is headquarted, they did not say anything about built or designed.... catch phrase....
that is good writing though...

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Designed and manufactured means designed and built. Right?

loosingmymind wrote:

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ericgee wrote:

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Kicker.com wrote:
KICKER Car Audio products are designed and manufactured by Stillwater Designs, headquartered in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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i think the key word is headquarted, they did not say anything about built or designed.... catch phrase....
that is good writing though...

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Designed and manufactured means designed and built. Right?

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sedate wrote:

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Anywho, why do you care about that anyway?

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jeffchilcott wrote:

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I just prove a point when in accuracys are made

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haemphyst wrote:

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Well, what it REALLY says is the Stillwater Designs is headquartered in Stillwater, OK. It does NOT say that it does not have MANUFACTURING FACILITIES in other places in the world.

Manufactured BY, yes. Headquartered IN, yes. But manufactured IN? Nope. Says nothing of the sort.

For it to MEAN that, it should say Designed by Stillwater Designs, and manufactured by Stillwater Designs IN Stillwater, OK.

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Thank you for clarifying that for me haemphyst. I was really lost there for a min. I don't even sell kicker; but that didn't sound right!

sedate wrote:

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I would do anything to have rolls and rolls of power wire like that just laying around.

I dunno about the girl though. They usually get kinda aggravating.

Anywho, why do you care about that anyway?

The United States simply is not a competetive manufacturer of consumer electronic goods. Especially lower end commodities like stereo gear simply is not made domestically at anything approaching a reasonable cost. This isn't a bad thing... just that low end production jobs are moving to where wages are lower. Don't believe everything you hear about this. Competitive companies, like Kicker for example, are in the 'information' export business... domesitcally *designed* products are then produced overseas for a fraction of the cost. In this sense, America is still exporting its most valuable commodity... our intelligence.

Besides, the farther you are away from a product the more money you make on it. Don't all the installers here complain about being underpaid? That's not a mistake, its a market reality.

If you're worried about the American manufacturing sector.. worry not... we still lead the planet by several orders of magnitude when we built complicated things. Like machine tools.

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Very well put Sedate.  Manufacturing moving overseas due to lower wages hasn't lowered the unemployment rate in the US.  It just simply changed the type of jobs available.

csnut18 wrote:

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I will try and get a 5 channel us amps amp. Now if I could only find speakers manufactured here that would be wonderful. Also i deffinetly here your arguments that this exporting of manufacturing is not destroying the country or anything but if there are products made here why shouldn't I buy them? If ford and GM make good stuff why not make an extra effort to get something from here?

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Who told you Ford and GM make good stuff? I think they might have been pulling your chain.

I'll tell you why you don't have to always buy american made products, for example some of the finest sounding speakers come from Europe. Morel, Dynaudio, Rainbow, Focal. These brands speak for them selves. CDT, pfff.

Are you sure I can't make you feel better about buying something imported?  Here, think of it this way:

You sound like you might be worried about the trade deficit with China or something.  First of all, when we buy things from China at a positive rate for China, that means China is accumulating dollars right?  What does China do with those dollars?  (Well, up until two weeks ago) It buys T-Bills from the US treasury WITH DOLLARS.  This means that they sell us actual stuff in return for dollars, then they give us the dollars back in exchange for our debt.  We get the money *back*

Now, as China acculumates American debt, what happens to American dollars?  Well, like any debtor, our credit rating... in terms of international exchange this is the dollar... goes down.  This is why the dollar has been declining in value in recent years.  We owe everyone money.

Forget not, this is a cycle, so as our dollar drops in value, the (this is very important) RELATIVE VALUE of the dollar vs. other currencies ALSO DROPS.  This means the amount of debt we have drops because the dollar is now worth LESS.  Now, as the dollar is worth LESS (this is also very important) our EXPORTS become CHEAPER and IMPORTS become more EXPENSIVE....

This means that American products will become less expensive abroad, and imports will be more expensive at home, which of course will stimulate domestic and international demand and then will stimulate the manufacturing sector, and thus save the jobs or whatever that you're worried about. 

So buy an imported stereo.  You'll be glad you did.

Sedate! You nailed it! Bravo! That is the best economic explination for the purchase of imported product that I have ever heard! I love Sony which falls under your expl. But you raise a good point. Ultimately the product will speak for it's self; but that was an awesome response for relieving the fear of of foreign product! One of the best responses i've read in a while! Thank you.

Dave