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HeavyD · 04-17-2018, 09:54 AM

Went looking for a deck with nav and backup camera capability etc for the wife's Xterra, and to my surprise the local shop I have dealt with for a long time stopped selling Alpine products.

He said they are now built in China (I thought almost all of them were by now??) and the quality has went downhill, and they had enough of returns. They have sold Apline since at least the early 80's..very interesting as this is all I used to buy.

Any audio fans shed a light on this? Has Alpine become a Wal Mart brand?

04-17-2018, 09:54 AM	#1
HeavyD Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wakaw, Sask, Canada Posts: 3,167	Alpine quality in the dumps?? Went looking for a deck with nav and backup camera capability etc for the wife's Xterra, and to my surprise the local shop I have dealt with for a long time stopped selling Alpine products. He said they are now built in China (I thought almost all of them were by now??) and the quality has went downhill, and they had enough of returns. They have sold Apline since at least the early 80's..very interesting as this is all I used to buy. Any audio fans shed a light on this? Has Alpine become a Wal Mart brand? __________________ "You can take the man out of PA, but you can't take PA out of the man"