I am British and live in England.
I buy the components I think are best and suitable for my needs. My amplifiers have been all Audio Research and (old) Krell. I had Naim in their glory days in the 1980s. Martin Logan CLX Anniversary. So far, all American. Phono pre-amp is van den Hul The Grail, so Dutch. Record player Simon Yorke, English but he moved to Spain before he built my S10. Cartridges Dutch, Danish, German.