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  1. Phantaminum
    Phantaminum
    *Looks at the Chinese made power cables* I knew it!
    Jul 30, 2020
  2. YMO
    YMO
    *Assembled In The USA*
    Jul 30, 2020
  3. Vtory
    Vtory
    Me too. My chain today is all assembled in CA-CA-NY and CA-FL-IL.
    Jul 30, 2020
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  4. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    HP:-- made in Germany
    Speakers:-- made in India
    Amplifier:-- British. I actually thought this one was made in China, but hey, "Made in England!" :)
    DAC:-- American Company, no country of of origin stated. Echo Audio?
    Blue Jeans Cables:- made in USA.
    Jul 30, 2020
  5. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    As a Brit, had I been richer I could certainly have gone Brit-fi.
    Probably would have had the HD600s though, to go with the big Tanoys that I couldn't afford.

    Maybe, in another life, I'll be American. Different choices, different opportunities. :)

    Anyway, and not to do with hifi, I'm sorry for the demise of the great and wonderful engineering/manufacturing traditions both of our countries left behind.
    Jul 30, 2020
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  6. Phantaminum
    Phantaminum
    Jul 30, 2020
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  7. penguins
    penguins
    I mused about this a bit (publicly) in Morpheus review - I've noticed a rough correlation between the native language of country and a tendency to use stuff from a place speaks the same or a similar language. Again, makes no sense and is strange at the surface level - I wonder if it has to do with what we are used to hearing in our respective linguistic environments and designers somehow tune things to this.
    Jul 30, 2020
  8. penguins
    penguins
    Have also noticed if gear is designed, tuned, and built by people all in 1 language sphere it will sometimes handle "missing" sounds present in other languages in slightly odd ways.
    Jul 30, 2020
  9. ChaChaRealSmooth
    ChaChaRealSmooth
    @fp627 I haven't experienced that myself, but that kind of makes sense since dofferent languange have and emphasize different kinds of sounds. Wonder if that would affect instrumentation.

    At any rate, I'm happy with my setup.
    Jul 30, 2020
  10. Vtory
    Vtory
    I believe logistics eventually plays more important role than language. @fp627 did you perhaps witness more USA hifi products purchased by UK than other non-Eng spking european countries?

    Another important confounder: participating forum/community (weakly associated with lang)
    Jul 30, 2020
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  11. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    Audio equipment is like human babies. When born, it can make /all/ sounds but, as it grows, it becomes limited to those it hears around it and is asked to make. We should keep our equipment linguistically flexible by playing all sorts of music.
    Jul 31, 2020