Does DK Design actually design and manufacture?

No Eldartford, if they appropriate existing designs and simply redbadge them or place them in a fancy-looking case, they are not like other manufacturers. So answer the question.

Uppermidfi:

I most certainly do not have the answer, which is what occasioned this thread.

DK Design puts out really splendid looking components. Friends of mine have told me how great these products sound, too. I've even heard one of the DK amps and thought it sounded quite good.

Intrigued by this brand, I searched around the posts in Audio Asylum, where I
came across the hint (or rumor or inuendo) that DK products were rebadges of existing products designed and manufactured in China (Taiwan, to be extact). I have no idea if this is true, but wanted to find out; hence this post.

If this, in fact, is true, it does not detract from the sound or design quality of these products. However, given that DK Design makes no mention of the true (?) provenance of its products on its website, this would cast this company in a somewhat negative light for me.

So: does DK design these products (ie, the electronics) themselves? Or not? What's the answer, boys?

http://www.cav-audio.com/Products.asp?Pid=7&id=54

Check out this link to CAV Audio, a chinese company. The shot of one of their amplifiers, especially of the innards, will look familiar to you DK owners. And check Audio Asylum for DK discussions that are already old news, it seems.

Larry:

Thanks for that honest and enlightening response. It's good to know that DK is now in good, professional hands. And the work you're doing with the DK products sounds promising and exiting.

What prompted this post was the suspicion, which I first encountered on Audio Asylum, that something wasn't quite right in DK land. This was a company that was adopting a very high profile, and making very bold pronouncements about their products. So they were noticed. I think that was part of the fascination when comments were passed about the "true" nature of this operation.

There is nothing wrong with Chinese components. (Indeed, from a variety of perspectives, there's a great deal right about them.) Nothing wrong with rebadging. But there is something a little shady about a company that isn't exactly forthcoming about these matters.

Your comments do confirm that there were "issues" with the previous regime. I think we're all glad that a new regime (ie, you) is now in charge. I wish you great success.

shamburg

Here's a truism that happens to be true: you get what you pay for.