Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

@rodman99999 

Regarding the gold standard: "Gold does not taste very good, even with seasoning. It generates no returns unless it is at someone else's expense" (ME)

@jafant 

I buy gear made by Americans and sold by Americans, unless it happens to have been made elsewhere by people somewhere else. I believe in free trade and legal purchases.

@nonoise 

I appreciate your words and agree with your post without reservation.

@ghasley 
Thank you for the kind words. I just wish I could compose my thoughts as well and as elegantly as you do. I should have gone farther than just an A.A. degree. 😄

All the best,
Nonoise

Too many electronic pieces are not made in US , even can not be made in
US, to look forward  to anything but trouble .

Anyway, are you going to buy equipment full of Chinese parts or not ? Or it depends, including on quality and price ? Mining practices, forced labor, abuses etc., remember ? Yes, you will. Chinese know it, they are clever, and they are cleverer. They also think centuries and millennia not short or even long term goals.  

@ghasley 
I thank you as well for your well reasoned and eloquent responses. A welcome relief from the tendency of most debate these days to devolve into real life versions of the movie "Idiocracy." It would be wonderful if all publicly debated disagreements were as logical, and level headed as yours.