Difference in quality in products made in China?

I have had no problems with workmanship of Chinese gear.
It's the counterfeit components they put in that annoys me.
Eg. the Ming Da stuff, even those "properly imported" by the US "distributor". There is no shortage of Rudeyconn caps... and I am not kidding.
Also is the utter disregard for safety. No bleeding resistors across 1st stage filtering caps, no elevated filament voltage for SRPP gain stages etc.

The weirdly racist and unsubstantiated claim that Asians have more "nimble fingers" is utter nonesense. There are simply a LOT of Asians to pick from and therefore a lot of Asians around everywhere (especially in Asia!)...I grew up in Honolulu which is basically an Asian community and learned firsthand that common racial stereotypes are always ignorance based bullshit.

Wolf-garcia, I appreciate your conscious efforts towards being politically correct however my assumption from your post would be that you have limited contact with pedagogues and students in a conservatory situation. This claim is far from being my own generalized assumption but rather information passed on from piano and string players and instructors involved in the classical music field. The most notable being a non-racist minister and piano instructor who attended several excellent conservatories on the east coast. My logic and intuition tells me to believe professionals in the field with venerated standing and honorary credentials.

Wow.

Goofyfoot- there were also "professionals w venerated standing" who said that the Jews killed Christ and that black men had an additional muscle and/or bone that made them better athletes than whites, and that humans would suffocate in railroad cars traveling at 25 mph. Sheesh!!!!

Swampwalker, is that what I said? If I were to mention to an Asian violinist that she had natural hands for playing the violin (which is often the case), that this would be defamatory remark rather than a simple observation. There was nothing in my original comment that would even suggest racial targeting or criticism towards Asians. Besides this, you know nothing about me, whether my wife is Chinese or whether or not I'm Jewish, nothing, zilch. To think that commenting about the physical strength and dexterity in the physiology of an Asians hands is less than a compliment is taking what I've said totally out of context. This new age-ie woo woo notion that were all physiologically the same and that commenting otherwise is somehow racial profiling is sure nonsense.