Originally Posted By Fran Carango
Bachus it does matter.. Years ago I was told Roland was going back to Japan to make their products, and stop the China operation..

Japan makes better quality musical instruments than China,,
Keyboards, guitars, band instruments.. without exception..

Correcting your error may alert people , that it is a China made product. It doesn't make it a bad product, but you can bet the components are made cheaper than Japan electronics..

I was leary about buying a China product, knowing they were going back to Japan again..

BTW: I just seen on youtube the Italy designed PA4x is 100 percent made in China too..

What does it matter?
A lot of repairs are not possible, they swap out whole circuit boards at cost to the consumer..


I have no problem with my pa4x being made in China, it still is like an apple product of the highest quallity, with nice keybed and metal housing.

And circuits oards not being able to be repaired often has to do with the latest technollogy pcb's being multilayer boards, because technollogy and compact format do require this.. there is no way you can solder a multilayer PCB yourself..

Its the way electronics moved forward in time, its modern technollogy amd compact formats.

Where things go wrong is the prices for spare circuit boards.. they are in general dead cheep to produce (few dollars) but sometimes these companies charge hunfreds of $'s for them.
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