Chi-Fi in the Time of Self-Righteous Indignation.

@builder3 

No, not all countries have that much freedom. The fact is some governments are so totalitarian that the people and companies that exist there only do what they're allowed to do.
 

You are absolutely correct. I work overseas in some challenging areas and this is how some countries operate. Most of these governments aren’t telling these companies what to produce, but they are requiring foreign companies operating in their country to purchase materials from these national companies. Good or bad these products are required for doing business. 

A lot of my components were made in England. Limey-Fi? ;-)

Redneck actually refers to miners at the turn of the century wearing a red handkerchief around their necks to signify the solidarity to the brotherhood of organizing and securing a safer work place for miners and there long term health and welfare. The spouses and dependent when accidents took life, limb, and always health early in life left THEM to fin for themselves. Life was short for everyone in mining.. Except.. 

BTW it's still the same crappy life and folks from there. They defend the heck out of the crappy conditions. The government could give a CRAP. They ain't digging coal. Other people are. Mining equipment sucks..

Regards

The term redneck originated with agricultural workers from the sunburn. Thise workers were typically poor, white, uneducated and likely sharecroppers or laborers. The term actually appeared in dictionaries post Civil War. The labor uprising referred t9 above was post WW1.

I have some decent tube gear.  MC240, 275 and MC75s.  Fisher 30A monoblocks.  A Lance Cochrane scratch built amp.  And a Mingda MC34-AB integrated tube amp.  The quality, even when I had the original tubes in it was spectacular.  I A/B'd it with some audiophile friends against the LC and the MC240, and it held its own.  Point to point wiring underneath.  Quality components.  I'm sure there's crap out there.  But not all of the Chinese made products are crap.