EL34 SE 12wpc for $200 new...anybody tried this?

You have to put it together, right?

Looks really nice. Great way to throw together a second system . For that price, I'm not sure you can go wrong.

Great way to throw away $200. Will you pick up the phone and call China when you have a problem?

I was on I90 yesterday heading into Seattle when I noticed something very disturbing. Trucks do not haul trailers anymore. They haul containers. Oh, I saw a trailer once in a while, but 90% were containers.

Heck no, Rrog, I'll get help on Audiogon!

My concern is that the trannies on the 200 one are awfully small. As a platform to try some mods on, the other one for probably 400 shipped seems interesting.

I read an article somewhere recently. At $.50/hr labor, American companies could not afford not to go to China for labor. Now that wages have hit around $6/hr, it's getting more common to consider manufacturing in the USA.