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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.audio
Subject: Re: Grundig
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 15:27:35 EST
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In article <325@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes:
>Grundig audio equipment has been around for over 35 years
>as I recall.  In my book, it is superb equipment.  You
>will see very little Grundig in the US as I suspect they
>are not too interested in exporting.

For those who are interested: Grundig car audio was imported into the
US for some time, up until some years ago. Their other audio gear
(mostly portable radios) only came in limited quantities and with 
limited distribution. Then, this stopped, and no Grundig electronics
were exported to the US at all (officially). I don't know if this was
the decision of the Grundig factory, or if there just were no US
importers who thought the market would make doing this profitable.

This changed this past year, with Grundig autosound products (only)
again being imported and distributed in the US, with advertisements and
some associated hoopla in the autosound trade press. If anyone really
cares, send me mail and I can dig thru my trade magazines and provide
you with the importer's and distributors' names.

None of the articles or ads about this that I have seen have mentioned
any Grundig products other than their autosound line. They do make some
shortwave radios which have been reviewed in places like the World Radio
TV Handbook, and which are OK, but usually not very competitive in
providing performance for the money they cost. I think these are
available in Canada. 

It would be nice if the US had access to the entire Grundig audio line
(video probably would not be of interest, being to European TV standards
and unusable in the US), but it is unlikely -- it seems that European
audio gear doesn't get imported into the US to any great extent, except
for British equipment. We used to be able to get Telefunken and other
German brands which you never see here now.

Regards, Will

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