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Treesive
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Old pg boards

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Were the old pg boards such as the ms and m series built in house or did someone like zed oem them to pg? I was just asked this question and couldn't give a certain answer so figured I would turn to here
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I remember being at the factory in portland and seeing the boards going across a solder vat putting the through hole parts on. Can't remember if the boards were cut in house though.
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From a friend who worked for PG.

Im sure if he sees this he will chime in. Incase not......

Done 3rd party. Was done down in the Rogue River area of Oregon for about 3 yrs. And then in China . We found a company tgatvcould fo 2 oz copper/gold plated boards as good or better than USA. For a lot less. Heatsinks were Kaiser aluminum in Los Angeles. All years. And all sheet metal silkscreening and powder coating was in house. As was insertion of parts.
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As well as CES booths. All our workbenches and jigs. Built in house. Woodshop was 40X 50 ft . 20 ft ceilings. Vehicle test area was 60 X 40
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Wow really suprised by the China bit. I didn't think they had any of that kind of work back in the early 90's
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I have 4 XS 8" subs and every one of them has a "made in China" sticker on the back. It surprised me too.

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LowandLoud wrote:I have 4 XS 8" subs and every one of them has a "made in China" sticker on the back. It surprised me too.

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Subs don't suprise me as much as I don't look at PG as a subwoofer company near as much as I do an amp company. That isn't to say the they haven't made good subs but I always believed those to be an oem type operation
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Before 2006 all boards was build in house. Tantrum was assemble in house but board was stuffed by subcontractor in New Mexico. QX, XENON amplifiers was build in Taiwan and Octane-R in China.
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You can add the tantrums to the "Taiwan" list, I found "Made in Taiwan" stamped underneath the pcb.

I couldn't imagine China making those gold plated board for PG (Sapphire,M,MS,MPS,ZX,ZPA)...they could today with the proper QC.
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I was going to say, I thought the titaniums were the last amps to be made in the USA. You can see a change in the design from titanium to tantrum. To me at least they seemed less American
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I saw a "Made in Hong Kong" sticker today (online) stuck to a supposedly unopened MPS board. I cannot comment on the authenticity.

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valeks1 wrote:XENON amplifiers was build in Taiwan
I always thought they were made in Korea...?
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Yes XENON amplifiers was build in Korea. Sorry

Tantrum PCB was mage overseas
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