Is Marshall Moving to China?? $1 Billion Sale Shocks The Guitar Industry

[@mrbesserwisser7447]

Marshall soon on Temu: Marchhall and Chibson

[@major_ruckus]

just got my new china Marshall plexi! it goes to eleventeen.

[@DanielsGuitarChannel]

Marshall's UK facility makes 450 amps a week. Thats 24,000 amps a year. This doesn't include the Vietnamese DSL and Origin amps. I don't think Marshall is going anywhere.

[@andretonelli]

Hi Daniel! The only issue is (at least for us traditionalists 😀) if they decide to move production to China. I'm not completely against that in principle, though for a company like Marshall it would feel definitely like a bit of a loss of heritage and tradition. I sometimes think some of these historic companies should be, for lack of a better word, protected.

[@DanielsGuitarChannel]

@@andretonelli I do agree with what you say there. Unfortunately a lot of amp companies use China to build their amps. It's a great time now to go buy a made in UK Marshall on the used market.

[@SPEEDGRX]

What!, So then it will say, Made in China 😮

[@DanielsGuitarChannel]

@ No different than Blackstar & Laney with their "made in China" amps. Sad times yes but you do have to think positively.

[@FreeSpeech-z6j]

@@SPEEDGRX no it will say "copied-in-cina"

[@jimjoebob2269]

Time to get a Engl!

[@andretonelli]

I am hoping that we'll keep getting great sounding Marshalls for years to come...

[@gabor222]

I could bring a lot of examples how bad Chinese QC is: Worked for an electronics company. When we switched from Mexican circuit boards to Chinese we suddenly had 7 times more faulty boards. Later when we assembled and tested servers for an other world-leader IT-security company we saw many indications of the Chinese plant falsifies the statistics (did not report test failures that were not avoidable with the actual software). I worked in higher-class mobile phone workcell too. There was a product type which's Chinese PCBs failed on the audio tests because of a design issue. Those boards were produced for months without resolving the issue and most of them went out to customers. And finally let's take a look at their instruments: I have a made-in-China Squier contemporary guitar, which is a fantastic guitar now, but I had to resolve several issues that should not have passed their Quality Check. And the most important part: if you don't try to avoid buying Chinese products (I was guilty in this one too) then don't be surprised when your salary gets closer to a Chinese worker's in the long term. Luckily we don't have to buy the Chinese Marshalls as there are many smaller European companies, DIY kits and butique builders who can provide clones.

[@andretonelli]

@@gabor222 thanks for sharing that! Certainly learned something. Btw, I’m not implying Marshall will indeed move production to China.

[@gabor222]

@@andretonelli Well they don't have to move to China, they are already in an other fellow dictatoric communist country: Vietnam.

[@gabor222]

@@andretonelli They don't have to move to China: they are already in Vietnam: a similar but cheaper communist dictatorship.

[@espkh1549]

What a loser…

[@EddieZep]

Goodbye Marshall !!!

[@andretonelli]

@@EddieZep hopefully not!

[@Labeilofest]

I'll never buy another Marshall if they do this.

[@Alfredo-e5f]

They go to call it boot lake amps from china no way

[@alistairfletcher6187]

Marsharr

[@redbloodedamerican2346]

Yikes.

[@andretonelli]

@@redbloodedamerican2346 Moog and now Marshall are big ones…

[@redbloodedamerican2346]

@andretonelli This is the reason Trump is setting tariffs. To keep Jobs in the US. I know Marshall is in the UK. It being cheaper in China is because of their labor laws. Not good ones either.

[@SPEEDGRX]

@redbloodedamerican2346 I order from Sweetwater the studio silver jubilee head and cab, 4 months ago, they don't know when they'll be getting any shipments in, So I wonder if it's coming out of China?

[@redbloodedamerican2346]

@@SPEEDGRX Oh wow! They did that to me with a line 6 Catylist foot switch a little while ago. I use zzounds from now on. It's a good possibility.

[@FreeSpeech-z6j]

you did a typo, anything with cina needs to SHITE in the same sentence

[@baddestmofoalive]

Marshall is hardly a guitar amp company anymore. Amps make up 5% of their business. 70% is from speakers and 25% is from headphones.

[@andretonelli]

@@baddestmofoalive really? Are those actual numbers???

[@LB-pp7pu]

@@andretonelli No, that's totally false. That nonsense is echoing through the web, people just want to point out that Marshall makes also headphones, speakers, fridges etc and that is "wrong"

[@tyronem3328]

Sad but true. 😢

[@baddestmofoalive]

@@andretonelli yes, I tried posting a link to the article but it won’t let me. If you do some searching, you can find it.

[@StillLivinginthewoods]

Shocking? Not even a little bit. Sad? Terribly.

[@andretonelli]

@@StillLivinginthewoods good point. It might all be moving east eventually. Unless, there’s a shift we aren’t seeing coming yet.

[@jasonstone1046]

Looking forward to the first Wuhan 100

[@andretonelli]

😃

[@wallyinthebox1]

Not Good!

[@scottdunn2178]

Mao - shall 🇨🇳

[@christianh7863]

Celestion have done fine being chinese owned gold peak tech group.

[@andretonelli]

@@christianh7863 good point!

[@fadlyhans82]

If it’s assembled in China then it’s ok. Come on, everyone’s got to have a share of the cake. It’s their turn now.

[@andretonelli]

Not saying it's bad if made in China. As a matter of fact, I was saying quite the opposite. Still, there is a sense of loss seeing a quintessential UK company being bought by Sweden, and then China.