Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier?

For decades I’ve read/heard disparaging comments about electronics made in S Korea. In college (1981) I bought a Sherwood S9600 CP receiver. Designed in the USA, manufactured and assembled in S Korea. 

Here it is 40 years later and I still use that receiver with no issues. Replaced a power switch. That’s it! It’s been in daily use for 40 years. Moved 14 times, even overseas. 

Im not supporting a communist regime in buying it. Denied Japan some money. But I feel good about it.

i can’t feel good about supporting the PRC and the CCP! Their stated aim and business practice is to take over all industry and control from non-communist countries. When you buy from them, you add a strand to the noose designed to hang western countries and economies.

I love the quality and sound of my Cayin, not a fake like OP is talking about, just to say, the capability of terrific products is there.
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Once, on the way to lunch with a client, I saw a sign on an audio store, asked my client "what kind of name is (my pronunciation) mass a goona?

He laughed, pronounced it properly: mashugana

It was ’Mashugana Ike’s’, a funny take off on Crazy Eddies.

I had heard, knew what it meant, but had never seen Mashugana spelled before.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mashugana&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS881US881&oq=mashu&aqs=chrome.2...

@jsd52756
Here ya go! Same guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5sysqu3Swk

yogiboy,

funny, thanks

Mashugana Ike mentioned here (spelled wrong sometimes)

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/17130-the-death-of-the-home-stereo-system/page/6/

OP, sorry to wander from your discussion.