Marshall being sold to Chinese conglomerate

I'm a longtime Marshall fan, but I feel I have the sense to know they are culturally dead as far as the mainstream goes. JMO.
 
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They just finished this big upgrade of the Marshall England production facility.
Either their going to still do stuff in England or they did that upgrade all for naught.
Bose bought Mc intosh. There's going to be Mcintosh car audio now, or so we hear.
China bought Marshall. Marshall is going to be digital amps or so I heard the plan was...but Marshall is headphones and blu tooth speakers.
There's a big gap to fill but there won't be any money to fill it.
 
As long as we don't get any bizarre final space log type "ode to mankind" news reports, I guess we are at least doing better.
 
Chinese conglomerate meaning
The same conglomerate that manufactures the phony ampegs
The phony Vox
The Beringers...the Bugeras...
The phony Soundcrafts...
the Crates...the Kustoms....

And no schematics and no replacement parts.

It's all done in 1 city, all in one place, all the same people and parts.
Just different name plates on the products.
We hear tell that people who work there are never allowed to leave the city....essentially they are prisoners.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
Chinese conglomerate meaning
The same conglomerate that manufactures the phony ampegs
The phony Vox
The Beringers...the Bugeras...
The phony Soundcrafts...
the Crates...the Kustoms....

And no schematics and no replacement parts.

It's all done in 1 city, all in one place, all the same people and parts.
Just different name plates on the products.
We hear tell that people who work there are never allowed to leave the city....essentially they are prisoners.
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Zero surprise there. If they actually move the manufacturing to China the Marshall name is dead and buried and the quality will be a joke.
 
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is: it's garbage, period. You look at Japanese manufacturing and it's phenomenal in terms of electronics and automation. Taiwan manufacturing is actually pretty impressive as well, especially in semiconductors. South Korean manufacturing has begun to become increasingly better in automation too.

But the Chinese believe in more is better and that translates to cutting corners. It's all about quantity vs quality. Look at their industrial manufacturing process and you can see the problem. They can spit out 50:1 on any product but it's so poorly built it hardly makes up for the amount that you get. I fear that if Marshall's standard line of amps are moved to China, then you will have the worst amps imaginable. I'm sure the higher end models will still be built in England, like their reissue series but all others will move there and become headaches for users being broke down.

Marshall already has been terrible at standing by their products since the 2000s onward. I imagine now they just waive all warranties
 
Clockworkmike said:
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is: it's garbage, period. You look at Japanese manufacturing and it's phenomenal in terms of electronics and automation. Taiwan manufacturing is actually pretty impressive as well, especially in semiconductors. South Korean manufacturing has begun to become increasingly better in automation too.

But the Chinese believe in more is better and that translates to cutting corners. It's all about quantity vs quality. Look at their industrial manufacturing process and you can see the problem. They can spit out 50:1 on any product but it's so poorly built it hardly makes up for the amount that you get. I fear that if Marshall's standard line of amps are moved to China, then you will have the worst amps imaginable. I'm sure the higher end models will still be built in England, like their reissue series but all others will move there and become headaches for users being broke down.

Marshall already has been terrible at standing by their products since the 2000s onward. I imagine now they just waive all warranties
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Ever since Jim died, it's been that way.

I used to call Marshall, speak to Dudley Craven. Dudley built the first Marshall amp.
He was a wonderful polite man who would do anything to help a customer.
He would help me fix any problem.
Hell, he taught me how to bias Marshall amps over the telephone ! (he biased amps using a scope)
And ever since he taught me, I have always done it his way. Always will.
I learned a lot about tube amps from him - he was a saint.

Yup, I miss that guy.
 
gball said:
Zero surprise there. If they actually move the manufacturing to China the Marshall name is dead and buried and the quality will be a joke.
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There will still be Marshall amps...
but they will be Bugera amps with a Marshall name badge.
No parts...no support...no schematics.

Marshall will manufacture wireless speakers and headphones, that's 95% of everything they do now.
 
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