Made in America

I try to buy American, but I have owned some Canadian and European gear too. Currently, my speakers, amp, preamp and turntable/arm are American made.

I also prefer made in American products, however have settled for made in china or chinese parts for American companies. But do prefer beyond the name plate, the sound of American Company's products. My Revels speakers have Chinese made cabinets, My Audio Research pre-amp has some chinese relays, My Ayre CDP has a japenese transport, my McIntosh amps are made in USA but owned by a japenses holding company which recently sold to and Italian holding company that also owns Audio Research. My Linn TT is scottish, but the cartridge is japenese. My Cardas cables, Running Springs, PS Audio, Harmonic Tech, all seem to be American. I have a world of confusion all in one cabinet.
But so far I don't have to call Bangledesh for tech support...

there is denotation and connotation involved in this question.

i think the connotation is that an american company manufactures in the states, employing american workers. i suspect that what i have described is what people mean by american products, rather than a toyota assembled in the us, or a chinese company hiring american workers and building some product.

i think when people advocate "buy american", they imply, from an american company, located domestically.

Humbuster,

FYI - while it's true that McIntosh gear has been continued to be manufactured in the U.S. (mostly), McIntosh Laboratory has not been a U.S. owned company since 1990 when it was acquired by a Japanese car audio manufacturer (Clarion), until 2003 when it was sold to another Japanese company (D&M Holdings), and most recently was sold to Fine Sounds SpA, an Italian firm.

For me it is hard to get nationalistic when buying most anything. Some of the worst products I have purchased in the last 20 years have been American made. Fortunately most of my high end USA audio stuff was pretty good after it settled in and got the bugs worked out.

But I've had both good and bad products from both domestic and foreign companies so I focus on who will be able to service the product when it fails. It is getting harder as time passes even to find a good USA tech when the manufacturer has closed shop. So I also buy product that is easily understood and repaired with the techs we have. A harder test for foreign products in the USA. Note a lot of very good Chinese products/manufacturers can't even get a distributor to last more than a year or two. European product is not that much better.

But nationalistic "Buy American" is just so much union propaganda, IMHO. Our manufacturers do not subscribe religiously to that, why should we. Even our government doesn't subscribe to that!