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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8754074" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>JL Audio has 335 employees, manufactures most of their product in house in the USA and has salaried engineers in house doing real R&D. </p><p></p><p>Not sure what Sundown is up to for employees, Google claims 17 and definitely no engineers or R&D in house. </p><p></p><p>Both have enormous commercial buildings with high overhead, have to set MSRP high enough that B&M dealers can make their vig for re-selling and handling most support, and also high enough to provide low hassle return/exchange/repair on broken products (many of which destroyed by incompetence or user error). </p><p></p><p>Even still, both are a wildly different business model than most that are 1-3 people and a garage/barn that'll tell you to piss off or make warranty claims a bunch of hoop jumpery and that are one meth addiction or one dud product run from China away from just disappearing.</p><p></p><p>Certainly both companies make a lot of money but this is more due to economies of scale than """overcharging""" for product. At the end of the day I bet a "brand" like Wolfram pockets more profit out of a Chinese full bridge 3K than Sundown sees out of "the same" amp from the same factory with a different logo on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8754074, member: 614752"] JL Audio has 335 employees, manufactures most of their product in house in the USA and has salaried engineers in house doing real R&D. Not sure what Sundown is up to for employees, Google claims 17 and definitely no engineers or R&D in house. Both have enormous commercial buildings with high overhead, have to set MSRP high enough that B&M dealers can make their vig for re-selling and handling most support, and also high enough to provide low hassle return/exchange/repair on broken products (many of which destroyed by incompetence or user error). Even still, both are a wildly different business model than most that are 1-3 people and a garage/barn that'll tell you to piss off or make warranty claims a bunch of hoop jumpery and that are one meth addiction or one dud product run from China away from just disappearing. Certainly both companies make a lot of money but this is more due to economies of scale than """overcharging""" for product. At the end of the day I bet a "brand" like Wolfram pockets more profit out of a Chinese full bridge 3K than Sundown sees out of "the same" amp from the same factory with a different logo on it. [/QUOTE]
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