Quote Originally Posted by skeptic
The manufacturer wants to know or at least he should. But if you are a small guy putting units together on order a few at a time in a garage, you can't do that either.
This is interesting. Sugden tests everything that goes out their door. Every product is hand built and listened to and tested before it gets boxed up and Sugden is not necessarily small but they sure are not big. B&W is as big as it gets in the Audio Industry and yet my speakers were obviously not checked according to your rationale. Audio Note of course checks all their stuff since they measure each and every product that goes out the door. But then they're not small...supposedly the second largest Audio Maker out of Britain.

So where does that leave us...some large and some small do and or don't check their stuff some of or all of or not at all some of the time.

If you design your stuff right and you have the right people on the line you should not need to make 1000 units before you discover the fatal flaw - no doubt the American car making philosophy that oh well so what if the car explodes on rear impact it's too costly for us to have a recall and far cheaper to settle with the thousands of families. I rarely see that if ever from Toyota because they had a competant non cheap out design to start with so you don't have to have some entity to ensure QC...they had it for 20+ years without.

In theory it's fine.