Micro RX 5000 Renaissance?

My Melody integrated amp was made in China. A very fine tube integrated. Beautiful, and a bargain at $2500. Australia based company designed it. Made in China in a factory where the workers live upstairs, because between the hours they work and the money they aren't paid that's all they can afford. I knew some of this at the time but the rest I only learned much later.

Its hilarious you mention plunder, because that is exactly what China, or the CCP anyway, is all about. There is no rule of law. Instead there is only the rule of the CCP. No labor laws, no environmental laws, nothing at all really which is how they are able to plunder intellectual and trade secrets, not to mention things like a whole pharmaceuticals industry manufacturing narcotics shipped all over the world. 

China provides the best organ transplants in the world. Right now in China anyone arrested is tissue-typed and ultra-sounded and logged into a database. So then when your match comes up they arrest you again, only this time you get strapped down and your organs removed, without anesthetic. A gruesome death for you to be sure but beautiful fresh organs for someone with money. Talk about plunder.

Myself, I found a lot of this hard to believe at first. Right now though I'm living with a Chinese national who works internationally, has family there, returns frequently. There is no longer any doubt. This ain't the half of it either.

But its enough to want to slap down hard on anyone with such foolish notions of what it means to buy goods made in China.

When I spoke of plundering I meant in the sense of stealing ideas culture art etc. If u want to go political then that is a never ending list for starters:

australians vs aborigines 
Irish v native Americans
Sinhalese v Tamils
east. V west pakistan

the wealth of Britain and the west was built upon workhouse exploitation of the poor - we may be enlightened now - so let’s preach to the Chinese. Don’t automatically assume that the person making the micro is in a poorhouse - he may be making good money from it and if it’s a copy then so what - it won’t diminish the value of the real thing - ideas are often borrowed - that’s life nobody lives in a bubble

millercarbon, Your story about organ transplantation in China is certainly horrifying.  Why haven't we read about this practice in the free American press?  Even Chinese political dissidents who have successfully escaped from China have not described the practice of stealing organs from live people that you outline.  Just wondering.

@edgewear I am coming pretty late to this topic so I apologize in case I tell you something you have found out yourself in the meanwhile.
In Europe, there is quite a cult of MS tables, particularly the RS and SX models.  I can understand why. As you've already precisely distinguished, there are 1. tables inspired by the RX-5000, such as the TW Acustic, 2.  the attempt at perfecting an exact copy by the dutch-german project you mentioned (www.micro-seiki.nl), and 3. the copycat made of aluminum by the Hong Kong audio company Amari (marketed in the west as Hanss Acoustics). AFAIK some exemplars of the Chinese copycat are brought to Germany and then heavily moded by Acoustical Systems - particularly bearing, platter, and motor. 

Micro-Seiki tables were the best belt drives of their time. You may use different motors and upgrade if you know how to do. Raul has never learned how to do it with this table. Not that he is completely wrong on the table ´s musicality but he ignores basic aspects in phono. Talking about ignorance and distortion brings him in a philosophical circle where he is well placed. Unfortunately this story will never stop but MS deserves a place in phono history!