Made In China

For me it's a difficult choice.  I'm an American. I love American made quality. I love legacy American products- like Audio Research, Pass Labs and Magnepan. 

I prefer to keep my money in my home town- local businesses get my dollars whenever possible. After that nationally. I'm cool with Canadian quality products as well- like Bryston. 

However the issue of quality matters too- I drive a Lexus not a Cadillac- (although I do own a 1971 Eldorado convertible)  If a piece that is exemplary happens to be ChiFi I'm OK with that- sorta. I have iPhones. Meh- my first DAC was ChiFi and pretty good quality too. Again meh- I guess as a Detroit boy and a former steel producer I'm pained by American industry being lost to Globalists. So I am happiest when I support my countrymen. So it's ARC over a Burmister for me! 

Jay's CD Transports

Gustard dacs

LHY switches

Excellent quality,  great connectivity, no issues for multiple years. Hard to believe there are better values anywhere.

I own equipment from China, Japan, USA, Portugal, UK, Danemark and Taiwan. It all sounds right to my ears. If I picked only equipment from countries that would align with my personal values, I would own nothing.

laoman - freedom and democracy are not free, nobody’s playing revisionists history here, you must not have the same meaning as I do when is say, “In modern times…”. The Vietnam war was a debacle and with the luxury of clear hindsight, a mistake.  War is now being played out, when possible, with precision munitions so that collateral deaths and injuries are eliminated or greatly lessened.  But it’s not always possible, and it’s often very ugly both to body and mind.  But that can’t take away the good the U.S. does in this world, in these MODERN TIMES, not 50 years ago.

hilde45 - nobody is stealing oil out from underneath anyone’s sand, it’s being bought and paid for.  If this moron of a president we have now had half a brain we’d be oil independent.  And by the way, I think they’re both morons, I simply like conservative policies much better than the alternative.

I notice that anytime a question is asked about Audio Equipment that has anything to do with China, a large percentage of comments become political.  While we are all entitled to our opinions, I would remind everyone of the story of Glass Houses and Stones.  When I look at the mess in our own countries, I question the Holier Than Thou attitudes being tossed about.  Let's get back to discussing audio equipment and leave the saving of the world to those more qualified.  Like The Donald. 😭

I purchased interconnects from china for under $100 per piece.

I’ve owned some good interconnects in the past such as the sigma v2, and a used pair of the stealth audio Indra V10 (these were not cheap $$).

Are the chinese cables as good as either of them? no

but honestly, they are not that far off. To get this quality elsewhere I would have to pay many multiples more

I havent purchased anything else directly from China but the value is there. You cant match the bang for buck

Would I rather support a domestic company? of course

But the price disparity is ridiculous. Like maybe if I could match the quality of these interconnects for $1,000 we could have a discussion.... but I cant. Some of these xlrs are 5 figures and the price gouging is out of control so I have no regrets