
Johnny2Bad
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T-bar Codes (the circle enclosing "T" with bar on top) indicating a Japan-based contract manufacturer was used to build vintage Sansui products. The entire product would be made in a non-Sansui factory. Standard procedure with Japanese brands. Will not appear on products contracted to a factory outside Japan, and the mark is no longer used today, so typically not found on modern components. But the practice is exactly the same today.
Also: Kenwood System with T-bar Codes on two of three products, and unusually, identifying the two different factories that did the manufacturing under contract for Kenwood.
The Japanese Electronics industry employs one Engineer for every four manufacturing jobs. You don't have to think very hard or very long to figure out that these brands are designing products and contracting out most manufacturing. In many cases the brand has no company-owned factories, and never did, at all.
Also: Kenwood System with T-bar Codes on two of three products, and unusually, identifying the two different factories that did the manufacturing under contract for Kenwood.
The Japanese Electronics industry employs one Engineer for every four manufacturing jobs. You don't have to think very hard or very long to figure out that these brands are designing products and contracting out most manufacturing. In many cases the brand has no company-owned factories, and never did, at all.
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