I don't typically take the country of origin into consideration as much as I take the company's focus on on quality products and ethical treatment of others. I have acquired all of audio gear from a audio retailer - the largest store being Tweeters in the 80s.
Made in America is nice and a local audio store that services warranty and has a trade-in program I value more than country of origin. That's my approach - and growing up 10 miles from Canada and half the family being Canadian I tend to lump 'North America' companies as American.
I've owned a variety of manufactures including US (McIntosh, Parasound); Canadian (Bluesound, Mirage, Moon, NAD), UK (Rega), German (Dual), Italy (Sonus faber), Japan (Denon, Yamaha). And I've bough all my equipment through local audio retailer.
