Well, sometimes, actually, yes. Unfortunately you have to do the research to figure out if anyone does it right and the people doing it wrong tend to out-marketing spend the good ones.
For example, house came with a garbage disposal. Within 5 years it rusted through, because why would you bother with stainless steel in something that is constantly soaked with water? Did research, didn’t have to spend too much more to get one actually made using stainless steel and that one is still going 15 years later.
Of course sometimes you just don’t have options. Like if you want a microwave, it doesn’t matter what microwave you get from what brand, all of them are just cosmetic variants/brands applied to the exact same microwave made by one company in China.
I remember a video of Linus from LTT going to check out the Sennheiser factory and their high end electro static ($ 19,000 at the time) headset had like a 40% quality fail.
Because only the best would be branded as their high end devices.
Most of the ones that didn’t pass were still absolutely fine, just not hitting all the frequencies correctly so they went in the $8000 bin.
Exact same product just some were slightly less performing but still more than useful as a lesser quality product.
Which iirc Linus commented on after initial surprise to see such a high failure rate.
Now that’s a good brand that cares about quality, lesser manufacturers…
Well, sometimes, actually, yes. Unfortunately you have to do the research to figure out if anyone does it right and the people doing it wrong tend to out-marketing spend the good ones.
For example, house came with a garbage disposal. Within 5 years it rusted through, because why would you bother with stainless steel in something that is constantly soaked with water? Did research, didn’t have to spend too much more to get one actually made using stainless steel and that one is still going 15 years later.
Of course sometimes you just don’t have options. Like if you want a microwave, it doesn’t matter what microwave you get from what brand, all of them are just cosmetic variants/brands applied to the exact same microwave made by one company in China.
I remember a video of Linus from LTT going to check out the Sennheiser factory and their high end electro static ($ 19,000 at the time) headset had like a 40% quality fail. Because only the best would be branded as their high end devices.
Most of the ones that didn’t pass were still absolutely fine, just not hitting all the frequencies correctly so they went in the $8000 bin.
Exact same product just some were slightly less performing but still more than useful as a lesser quality product.
Which iirc Linus commented on after initial surprise to see such a high failure rate.
Now that’s a good brand that cares about quality, lesser manufacturers…