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RE: No screaming here.

Not Chinese Magnepans -- yet -- though I believe some planar drivers are being made in China, and in some cases (as in the home theater market) there could be product overlap.

However, Magnepan competes not just against other planar manufacturers, but against other speaker manufacturers in general, and I think that's significant. If low Chinese wages and Chinese currency cheating bring down the cost of box speakers, the price/performance advantage of Magnepan's technology is eroded. That in turn reduces market share.

Most businesses would react to that -- have reacted to that -- by moving their manufacturing operations offshore. To their credit, Magnepan has chosen to stay here and compete. I hope they can hang on until we the people wise up and elect some politicians who, unlike both of our national parties, decide that it's time to stop exporting our factories, our jobs, and our prosperity to low wage countries that steal our intellectual property, protect their markets and dump into ours, ban exports of rare earth minerals in violation of trade agreements, and then, just to make sure that we're thoroughly screwed, look the other way while their nutty client states develop nukes.

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