Made In China

We win the second world war among many factors at play for two economic understated reasons here in North American comic books and movies about Hitler :

First the price in combats numbers and battles in men : here Us had no right to compare to Russia loss ... 420,000 deaths compared to the huge Russia sacrifice fixing Most Hitler forces on the ice of Russia: 27 millions of death.

Without Russia no way US can win against european nazified industry...

It takes and it is my second point the huge 1000 boats of the merchant fleet of Norvegian navy transport for England survival to annihilate the Hitler conquest by alimenting England as a fortified island.. The russians and the Norvegian fleet did the hard job..

wikipedia : «Without the Norwegian merchant fleet, Britain and the allies would have lost the war".^[1

I recommended to buy Norvegian and Russian audio products. 😁None of these countries being Nazis or communist right now. None owning any military bases out of their historical borders.

By the way Norvegians refused to comply and do not delivered jews and saved 90 % of their jew population... America refuse to host most jews demanding asylum...

Truth matters...

We all love our country but blind nationalism is only propaganda...

It is like in audio many people takes the truth in reverse mode :

It is acoustics and psychoacoustics science that rule gear design quality and it is acoustics then the main knowledge to reach audiophile experience not  merely an upgrade of amplifier or speaker in itself most of the times.

The only exception will be to go from very low cost speakers as my 100 bucks one to my past Tannoy dual Gold concentric for example ... but  i modified my little speakers low cost they almost  compete with the Tannoy if we put them in a living room instead of a dedicated acoustic room...

For me it's a difficult choice.  I'm an American. I love American made quality. I love legacy American products- like Audio Research, Pass Labs and Magnepan. 

I prefer to keep my money in my home town- local businesses get my dollars whenever possible. After that nationally. I'm cool with Canadian quality products as well- like Bryston. 

However the issue of quality matters too- I drive a Lexus not a Cadillac- (although I do own a 1971 Eldorado convertible)  If a piece that is exemplary happens to be ChiFi I'm OK with that- sorta. I have iPhones. Meh- my first DAC was ChiFi and pretty good quality too. Again meh- I guess as a Detroit boy and a former steel producer I'm pained by American industry being lost to Globalists. So I am happiest when I support my countrymen. So it's ARC over a Burmister for me! 

Jay's CD Transports

Gustard dacs

LHY switches

Excellent quality,  great connectivity, no issues for multiple years. Hard to believe there are better values anywhere.

I own equipment from China, Japan, USA, Portugal, UK, Danemark and Taiwan. It all sounds right to my ears. If I picked only equipment from countries that would align with my personal values, I would own nothing.

laoman - freedom and democracy are not free, nobody’s playing revisionists history here, you must not have the same meaning as I do when is say, “In modern times…”. The Vietnam war was a debacle and with the luxury of clear hindsight, a mistake.  War is now being played out, when possible, with precision munitions so that collateral deaths and injuries are eliminated or greatly lessened.  But it’s not always possible, and it’s often very ugly both to body and mind.  But that can’t take away the good the U.S. does in this world, in these MODERN TIMES, not 50 years ago.

hilde45 - nobody is stealing oil out from underneath anyone’s sand, it’s being bought and paid for.  If this moron of a president we have now had half a brain we’d be oil independent.  And by the way, I think they’re both morons, I simply like conservative policies much better than the alternative.

I notice that anytime a question is asked about Audio Equipment that has anything to do with China, a large percentage of comments become political.  While we are all entitled to our opinions, I would remind everyone of the story of Glass Houses and Stones.  When I look at the mess in our own countries, I question the Holier Than Thou attitudes being tossed about.  Let's get back to discussing audio equipment and leave the saving of the world to those more qualified.  Like The Donald. 😭