Owner`s manual
Owner's Manual 444
We all...
... produce electronic waste! It's just a matter of time!
We here at Ampete Engineering are not only consumers, like you yourselves, but also engineers of electronic
products that we want to place into a modern world. Here it looks at first glance that everything has been
invented already. But demands are getting more refined and specific by the day and as in the economics,
the sports- or even spiritual world, performance, utility and consistency depend on small changes and
nuances in improvements. In other words we are supposed to get better every day. This is not a one way
street, it's a huge responsibility in the other hands!
For us it means more than wanting a slice of the pie. It means to review every single product we design for
its added values, to anticipate the circumstance you put it into in order to ‚simply' be able to maintain it
everywhere it has been sold to.
Today our whole life is determined by electronics, at home, on the road, at work or vacation, in
supermarkets, concert arenas or even in natural resorts.
Today in general electronics aren`t built any longer to last! They`re cheap.
For people from the 70ies like us it is a turning point. We grew up in a world where an electronic device is
nothing short of a masterpiece. Today 90% of electronic applications are manufactured by using robots or
exploitation in countries where `global players` celebrate the abolition of workers protection and minimum
salaries. But it doesn’t end there.
After an expected life cycle, more or less short, the cheap electronic waste is gonna be ‚disposed‘ of. Dispose
might suggest that components like housing, metal and synthetics will be recycled to find their way back
into a product. But of course often this is not how it is done!
If you ever heard of 'toxic city' (and I don't mean the fantastic album of a great band) you probably know
what we speaking of.
It might surprise you to read this in a manual for an electronic device.
We want to make sure you understand that by purchasing an Ampete Engineering Product you will get a
device in which we put all our passion, belief and knowledge and that you get a product in the tradition of
many great people before us, for whom electronics were and still are wonderful masterpieces.
But you also purchased a little piece of responsibility. Maintain your Ampete Engineering Product – we will
be here to support you, we built this to survive… possibly even us.
In case you should be faced with any issue on any day at any place somewhere in the world, we are here as
you would expect us to be.
This is not a promise, it is our view of life.
Thanks for letting us be a part in enabling your musical world.
Yours sincerely,
Ampete
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