Pioneer Splits from PAC, How Does this Affect Onkyo AVRs?

[Trebdp83]

Yes, it is all quite unbalanced. Washington D.C. is currently the world’s biggest whore house.

They’ve done quite a good job at convincing the American people that all of the nation’s problems are the fault of the other party while members of both in office profit from all of the mayhem.

But, with many Americans being self absorbed, ignorant, greedy lard asses, should they not be represented by the poster child of self absorbed, ignorant, greedy lard asses?

The USA has the world’s worst addiction problem. Just pick one. The American people treat their own country like a casino. They know it is rigged but are convinced they will eventually hit the jackpot and don’t want that casino to get demolished until they do so. Hey, have a great weekend everybody!

 

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Is that like 80% Soundbars & TVs, 19% AVRs, and 1% Separates?

Wally World, Costco, Beast Buy and other big box stores sell a lot of TVs and soundbars and I have yet to get good answers to the questions I ask at any of these. They don't hire salespeople, they hire clerks. I haven't gone to a Magnolia store in more than ten years but the 'expert' they sent to a house where I was working didn't know the products very well.

TBH, I can understand wanting simplicity, in light of the problems I'm having with a Harmony remote that I programmed for a customer in 2016. It suddenly stopped finding the hub and Harmony has ended phone tech support, so they have been absolutely no help. I did find that I can create a new account and add equipment & activities, but it's the last time I will spend this much time with one of theirs. Mine work fine, but if I have the same problems, they'll be posted on FB marketplace, ebay, etc.

Priorities change for people and as a dealer/installer, I can't see butting heads if someone wants to keep it simple- it's not my house, after all.

 

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Sure but almost none of the manufacturing is in the USA now...

Like many industries it has become a service industry... and the actual "making" of stuff is elsewhere.

With R&D and Education compromised in the USA - the development structures, the base for developing new technologies and products, is shifting... massive rise in China - Europe static, USA on strong downward trend.

Over time that shifts things - much support has already shifted (where are the call centers!)

As parts of the USA continue their trajectory towards third world status, there may come a time when the large corporations decide the labour costs are sufficiently low to bring manufacturing back.... but that doesn't happen through Trumpian Tariffs overnight - that is more of a generational process.... 10 year timelines are probably the minimum...

It's not the mass-marketed stuff that's made in the US- more often something tweaky.

Watch or listen to Mike Rowe's comments about his foundation and the need for kids to learn trade work. His stats are scary, especially since I work alongside of many tradespeople- workers are aging out, leaving because they can make more on their own, moving up the company food chain, dying, etc- the US has a skills deficit that will take decades to catch up, if ever. Being able to diagnose problems and general troubleshooting makes it possible to avoid being a victim of sleazy companies, people just aren't learning to do this and parents didn't do this, so they can't be their kids' teacher. Schools stopped teaching it and they only started again fairly recently, because of interest in robotics and STEM (which we ALREADY had). I think Mythbusters raised peoples' interest and curiosity but most people don't seem to be curious enough to bother to look into anything technical on their own.

This is the result of government using "Look! A Squirrel!" to divert peoples' attention while they were screwing us.