chinese counterfeitng

" But who Has a hart today"
Only people with large properties and a growing deer population ... ;-)

I can name manufacturers whose products are not Chinese. Schiit Audio only uses Chinese Wall Worts, everything else is bespoke by Americans in California.
High Fidelity Cables in Texas hand-makes each unit.
As for Chinese products, a friend of mine is in the industry.
He has toured Chinese manufacturing for the line of Plasma TVs he was importing. He said the facility was very modern and used robotic equipment, and probably did a better job than an American factory. That was 20 years ago.
Folks, we live in a global economy and China is a producer, whilst we are consumers.
When I was growing up (born only 12 years after WWII), the punchline to any joke about quality manufacturing was "Made in Japan".

The best amp I ever owned was Chinese (Dussun) and even they warned buyers about gray market stuff. It's pretty hard to tell the fake stuff.

I bought a consonance turandot cd player about 14 years ago , cost me 800.00 dollars but list price was 2,300.00 dollars . It has incredibly well engineered using high quality parts with a very sturdy casing . Weighted about 35 pounds . Just recently the tray started to give problems and wont open but the unit took 14 years of beating before going under and that is pretty good reliability for something as complex as a upper quality cd player . I mention this because not everything that comes from China is bad . Almost forgot , my friends tell me the consonance sounds alot like a Wadia so it sound very good also

Love my Rogue and my Maggies! Both made here in the USA and are just a couple, of several, manufacturers who still build very good, reasonably priced  products here in the US and provide impeccable customer service - I'm happy with that.
I've never had any experience with the so called clones of high end audio gear, but if they're on par with the junk "Made in China" knock offs of the Gibson Les Paul or Fender Strat guitars - they're nothing even close to their original counter parts.....JMO...Jim