Speaking of appliances, I bought in Black Friday a coffe grinder. It costs less than most of the Chi-fi discusseed in this forum. It's a joy to use, fantastic engineering, reliable, and serviciable. It's even beutiful. For sure it has passed QC, and it's made by a normal Italian company, not a huge corporation. Obviously to make a grinder of this quality reliable is several orders of magnitude more complex than packing some circuit boards in a metallic box. So, yes, reliable HiFi electronics is possible even for small/medium companies.
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