gikigill
Senior Member
It doesn't bother me in the least. Should it?
PS and Schiit are boutique manufacturers playing with the audiophile's desire for a story, a character or two, and a point of difference. They play well in that space. (I dislike that term don't you?)
Revolutionized, I don't think so. That's funny. The big brands (the Japanese) simply abandoned vrtually the entire HiFi market and the Chinese slid into the bottom tier. There are thousands of way higher performing real HiFi components still out there, produced in the 80s and 90s.
People just have forgotten (or just never knew) how good HiFi got in the 80s and 90s.
Of course it should bother you, you go on and on about low quality Chinese stuff but have nothing to say when to comes to low quality US made equipment. I,m not Chinese BTW, I,m of Indian origin who migrated to Oz.
I,m guessing its less to do with the equipment and more to do with with wheres it made from and who made it and I assure you, I have 1970s Stax and Sansui so I know how good Japanese manufacturing can be. I grew up in a house where even the alarm clocks were Sony. We had Sansui, Akai, Aiwa and even today my Minidisc collection borders on more than 100 recorders/players and most of it from Sony, Sharp, Aiwa, Kenwood, JVC, Pioneer, Denon and others.
A vintage Onkyo A-5100 is sitting next to me as I type this and an AMB M3 and AMB Beta 22 which were both designed by a Chinese designer are on my left acting as my main headphone amps.
Problem is 1970/80s Japanese top of the line was just as expensive as any top of the line audio kit today. The top of the line Sony amps of the 70s would be worth more than AUD $7000 today.