I'd say they already are.
Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio?
With the insane prices now being asked for audio equipment from manufacturers around the globe is china going to fill in the gap between the haves and have-nots.? We are already seeing some signs of this with manufacturers like Jays Audio and Denafrips offering product-performance prices below global market value. The only thing I see holding them back is they will always be one leg behind the rest of the world since they copy most of the technology they use and world wide acceptance.
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I will only correct this claim by saying that China was in advance on all technological level for millenias... They lost their advance only for few centuries After the 16 th century... They invented everything BEFORE european take off after the 16 century... Dont believe me read a book : Joseph Needham Science and civilization in China...A mammoth series of books , but like me you can read a one book shortened version.. Think about almost anything, the chinese created them before... There is even a map describing all technologies by date in Europe compared to China.. It is easy to verify...Among many reasons there is the population densities which was higher in China than in Europa...Then when you had more "engineers" you create more... Simple... They are many others factors for sure.. many books were written on this... Then reducing ALL chinese engineers to mimicking non creative engineers is a bit far fetched...
An interesting question will be why the theoretical scientific method explicitly develop by Galileo was born in Italia and why the industrial boom who came after did not existed in China, is related to questions about religion and geography among many other deep factors and also related to the triple roots; semitic, greek and roman birthing of Europe and the continuous nourishing technological line going from China to Europe before and after Islam... In few words : «Why did modern science stop developing in China after the 16th century? Needham believed this was due to China’s sociopolitical system which was not affected by Chinese inventions.» For example the huge fleet of boats way more big than any european fleet, able to conquer the world in a way, was dismanteld for socio-poilitical self isolation reasons ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China
Second with the coming economical crisis , the price of audio will change a lot... i cannot predict how.. 😊
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OP… “With the insane prices now being asked for audio equipment from manufacturers around the globe”. I am puzzled at the question. I don’t think insane prices (so, say high ticket, Boulder, and dCS… etc) are even remotely being competed in products from China. The performance of these products far exceeds anything from China. Not even mid tier priced audiophile gear… say Audio Research, Conrad Johnson. Now yes, in the modest price stuff where Schiit operates.. yes they are competing there… but then there is Schiit. So, yes in the very low end China is very competitive. I have a Prima Luna integrated amp that is a very good value for the money. |
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