"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Given a positively-price-sensitive market condition, substantially
higher quantities of product (leading to increased automation, design
to use more precise techniques on automated bases, etc.) and the use of
less expensive assembly labor-although that's a nominal part of the
whole package-it is absolutely and conclusively certain that the exact
quality of a current Linn table-arm-cartridge combination could be
reduced, probably drastically.

Bret, do you have a German-schtick you feel compelled to adhere to? Why do
you force the reader to wade through seven line sentences, with word
counts
of fifty-one? It is extremely hard to read.

I actually read your bloated sentence. It contains interesting thoughts.
But
you need to cut it into digestible pieces. Let's do that now:

"Lowering the price of a high-end product would result in substantially
greater sales. Increased automation would allow more precision of
assembly,
with lower labor cost. I am absolutely positive that the quality of a
current Linn table-arm combination could be drastically reduced."

As we discover the meaning of this bloated monstrosity, further paraphrase
becomes possible:

"With the substitution of automation for human skill, assembly of a Linn
table-arm combination could be accomplished in a Chinese sweatshop, with
drastic reduction in quality."

I think he really meant a reduction in cost.
Chinese quality varies from the worst in the world to the best.
We're now getting mobile
KU-band satellite transceivers out of Chinese factories of equal or
better quality than our US factory. National Semiconductor's president
recently went on a rant in Electronic News about US manufacturing
and pointed out that the perception of the Chinese sweatshop is
flat out wrong in todays day and age. If you want to see the worlds
most advanced state of the art manufacturing ("dark" factories, so
fully automated that no lighting is needed for human operators)
you have to go to China to see it.

ScottW