[Larry Villella]

I don't think JP and I are at odds, we just put emphasis on different things.


JP is right, of course, at this time, our AUSSIE Designer is working with a Chinese Factory,
as is JP, our PC-Board Designer. My goal, however, is to see how LITTLE we can
source from China. The Trend is toward more US and European, Less PRC.

So what if he's a PhD, so what if JP is a design-genius, so what if I have been collecting
Mics for 40 years. None of it matters. The mics sound good or they don't. If I choose to
focus on the brain-trust in Australia and Belgium and you think that's deceptive, well that's
your priviledge and your right. (Do we memorialize the immigrant workman at the Steinway factory
who builds the piano, or Theodore Steinway's brilliant design-collaboration with the physicist Helmholtz?).


The fact that I have a great design-team is apparent to me. If you disagree after
hearing the product, that's fine! Please remember - I'm a musician, not a marketing guy!!


What I can say about the entire ADK Team is all we truly care about is Tonality!



REF: The Phrase "Hand-Crafted in USA" - According to the FTC - it is all I can say because
if 1% of the components are not or USA Origin, you cannot use the phrase MADE in USA.


FACTS:


Over 50% of the Cost of the PC Board is installed in USA.

The Aussie Designer has more to do with the Capsule than China does.


Maybe you think I am splitting hairs. So be it. I stand by my recitation.



I am on a mission to put Americans (and Australians and Beligians) to work.


So whatever judgements you want to render about all this is up to you !!

But please - don't let rhetoric get in the way of a critical audio evaluation!!!!!


We spent 3 years and darn near bankrupted ADK to have 7 US Built products.


At this point, I think we'll let the products peak for themselves. . . . . .


Respectfully,


Larry Villella, ADK