Zapco C2K Owner's Manual - Made In America
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Made In America
If a product comes into this country complete except for a couple of
screws that hold on a cover plate, should it be called “Made in America”?
We don’t think so! If a company hides its origin of manufacture, you know
there’s a reason. Usually it’s that the quality is so poor that they need the
“Made in America” claim to make the sale.
Are foreign products inferior? Of course not! Most car audio
manufacturers (Including ARPA of America) have products built all over
the world, and they are fine products. However, if you look at the boxes
they come in, each box will tell you exactly where the product in that box
was made. These companies let their reputation stand or fall on the quality
of what they produce. At ARPA of America, we conceive, design, and
engineer every Zapco product we sell and we demand strict adherence to
our bill of materials from everyone who builds products for us. If you make
a quality product you don’t have to trick people into buying it with
dishonest labels.
Why do we want to protect the “Made in America” label? Well for the
Competition line, it means that we make our Comp products here, top to
bottom, in Modesto, CA. We conceive, design, test, and manufacture
every Comp amp and processor we sell, ourselves. We build up all our
own circuit boards on our own surface mount machines. We wind most of
our power supply transformers right here at the factory. We even have our
own heat sink extruded so our own machine shop can build the chassis
and our screener can then screen them. We use 5532 and Bur Brown op-
amps in our products and 1% metal film resisters throughout.
Why don’t other companies use the same quality parts? As one
reviewer put it “You don’t see these used very often because they cost
more”.
We fully intend to continue building the finest car audio electronics
money can buy. We can only do that by putting the finest quality
components we can find inside the product, and by applying the finest
possible craftsmanship to their manufacture. By doing it ourselves!
Does this make the Competition products mare expensive than the
“run of the mill product” product? Absolutely, but we did not build this
product for everyone. We built it for the consumer who shares our passion
for sonic purity and manufacturing excellence.
We built it for you!