Made in USA

Outside the USA items made there are most often too expensive, transport, changes due to voltage, certification costs, small sales volume and usually higher markups make them uncompetitive. Some nice products, my first DAC was an Audio Alchemy, very nice, AR speakers were well marketed in the UK and realistic in price, however typically here in Australia anything by MacIntosh for instance is at least twice the price it is worth, even stuff by Schitt is not cheap. 

@henry53 in Eastern Europe a decent speaker (5 grand) would cost 10 grand out the door and you'd have to put 10 months of your salary away for it.

So...are you really only buying US equipment first and foremost rather than what sounds best, fits your needs etc? To each their own but I'm certainly not - I'm buying what I like the best and what fits my needs and budget and what sounds the best within my system- just like I'm not buying my cars based on where they're made. 

"A member of the Communist Party USA at the time when Stalin was enslaving half of Europe, Zinn ignored that colonialism as he focused A People’s History of the United States on the supposed horrors in American history from Columbus onward..."  Architects of Woke: Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil

@noske  Far from being Marx's "magnum opus" as it is sometimes portrayed, Das Kapital was cobbled together by Engels from Marx's strewn notes and journals and does not have the coherence nor the provocative effect of Marx's, and Engels', earlier writings, however flawed those writings may be.   The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Tucker, is a better overview.  But, it is amazing that you persevered to read all three volumes of DK... yep, that'd be a heavy trudge! 

@dodgealum I'm very glad you didn't teach at my high school.