Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier?

glupson, "I am not defending piracy of any kind,"
That's my position. 


madavid0 " They chose to charge absurd, wild markups and content themselves with super high profit"
There must be several threads where OOB/consolidated manufacturers are listed. With "super high profits" they would not have closed. Not one person in my family has a stereo. In school everyone had a system, today only one friend does and that because I practically gave it to him. Sales volumes are down and large sales may be the only way to stay in business. I don't think it's working.
Raul

Glupson - " While you are at stealing inventions, be ashamed of using some of the China’s."....... Actually, most adults realize that many nations have been "appropriating" technology from others since Adam. I sense that the real issue for the aversion to Chinese products has to do with their government’s current slave labor camps in its western provinces and the overnight "liquidation" of pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong these past months. And I’m ignoring the 10’s of millions who were silenced during the Cultural Revolution within our lifetimes. Call me a sentimentalist......Hard to "wrap" my head around your repeated attempts to draw moral equivalence.

Somebody broke into my house and replaced everything with exact replicas (Steven Wright joke).

mikeydred,

Hard to "wrap" my head around your repeated attempts to draw moral equivalence.

I understand that. How about Japanese? Any sentiment about Germans? Italians? French? Spaniards? Portugese? Turkish? Some of them make well-respected audio products, too.

Not to pound on moral equivalence, but another food for thought while being clear about China...

A brief history of the Indigenous peoples who lived here before us - Pipe Dream (bupipedream.com)

McIntosh - Contact Us (mcintoshlabs.com)

Very good post glupson....

i concur with this post ....

My best to all....