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I know I may take a bit of flack for this, but: "0%". I don't care about country of origin, because the whole premise feels flawed to me: what constitutes "made in"? Does it mean final assembly? Individual component construction? Raw material sourcing? Original design? Retail location? And why should I care one way or the other? Is this like baseball, where I'm always supposed to root for the home team? (And that's as far as I'll go down that path, since I'm pretty sure discussions of nationalism are seriously off-topic for ASR.)
Even the question itself assumes the reader is a US citizen or cares about US interests, and I'm pretty sure we have a few Chinese folks contributing here.
So the honesty in vendor reporting (the manufacturing origins of components and assembly) is a separate question. My question assumes the consumer is given enough information to make a decision. This is true across all products and goods (e.g. cars, appliances, pharmaceuticals, etc).
It is ok if you personally do not care (i.e vote for zero percent). I'm for freedom of choice
>>> Even the question itself assumes the reader is a US citizen or cares about
>>> US interests, and I'm pretty sure we have a few Chinese folks contributing here.
Correct in my case. But the question also applies generally to any person in any country. For example, a Chinese citizens living in China may consciously choose Audio-GD instead of Benchmark.