I don't care a stuff where a hi fi product is made. What I care about, is the standard of it, the final build quality presented , what it can actually do, known reliability, and the price asked. Does one expect a little man to jump out and wave your country's flag in front of a purchased article for good measure to aid your listening experience? I would like to know how much 'nationalist patriotic thinking' could go into something made elsewhere, that may be in fact been robot -assembled? The acid test is to take a microscope to the mirror finished panels on some two pieces of similar 'high end' HI Fi equipment from two different countries - east & west.. I know of one person who did such a test. Finding human screw driver 'unattractive burr marks' on the 'patriotically wound screws' of one, and none on the robot flawless- assembled unit. One supposes the lack of human fatigue and error, or a worker being pissed off and just grouchy on the day, does help, sometimes.