btw.
SOMA gear is made in Poland as well, I even know the guys well personally.
Company is called SOUND MACHINES based in Warsaw
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Supply chains and overheads are a lot more complicated than how much the minimum wage is in the country stuff is made/assembled. Besides, we have no idea how much the staff in Poland are being paid, they might be getting a lot more than minimum wage…
Elektron might well be taking the piss a bit with current OT prices, but people are still buying them in decent numbers and it’s not as bad as old TE doubling the price of the OP1 is it…
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If Elektron people were fair, they would provide polish Octatrack full of disco-polo samples
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For all whom it may concern, this is what @LoomieDarko meant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxtnot8lY4U
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SOMA Gear made in poland in EU division of the SOMA laboratory for EU and USA Market. For Russian Market SOMA made gear in Russia - VG Line company based in Moscow
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This sounds about right!
Economically, the surface current still looks like the old model of Polish subcontracting, relatively cheaper labour and a slow clamber up the value chain. But it masks undertows of a new economic relationship in which Germany faces competition from its eastern back yard. A Polish-Finnish firm recently launched pioneering satellites with cloud-penetrating technology. The US army has just procured 10,000 Polish Manpad missiles (man-portable air-defence systems) after they proved more effective than American Stingers. The Polish army sourced nanosatellites newly invented by a local company. Some Polish start-ups, such as molecular diagnostics firms, are being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. And the Polish electric car Izera will hit the market in 2026 with plans to produce 60% of components locally.
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