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What Country Is Your Gear From?

watchnerd

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Just looking at the gear I own:

Speakers (Dynaudio): Danish
Subwoofers (Martin Logan): American / Canadian
Turntable: (Michell Gyro SE): British
Tonearm (SME, Jelco): British, Japanese
SUT (Hashimoto, Lundahl): Japanese, Swedish
Cartridge (Audio Technica, Nagaoka): Japanese
Reel to Reel (Revox): Swiss
Electronics (Devialet): French

I guess the only significant "audio nations" I'm missing are Germany [forgot about my RME ADI-2 Pro in the office], Netherlands and maybe Korea (if Korea counts as a major audio nation)

How does your gear break down?
 
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I have mix of US(speakers, power amp, my own server, DAC), France (pre-amp) and Japan (reel-to-reel).

I know your RTR is an Otari, and you have a lot of Mark Levinson electronics, but what is your French preamp?
 

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System for my apartment in Korea (I also have a system in the US)

Speakers (Spendor) UK
Subwoofers, (B&W) UK
DAC, (Aune) China
Turntable (Clearaudio) Germany
Cartridge (Clearaudio) Germany
Phono Stage (Graham Slee) UK
Preamp (JDS) US
Amplifier (NORD) UK
Computer my build
 
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Very few products today come from a single country so it is hard to say.

USA (speakers, DAC, CDP, preamp, amps, integrated amp, electronic XO, TT, subs, own server)
Switzerland (phono cartridge and phono preamp)
Canada (electronic XO)
Australia (electronic XO)
 
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Very few products today come from a single country so it is hard to say.

Sure, the supply chains and components are from all over the place, and have been since at least the 1960s. So it's really a question about the brand / HQ / country of domicile.
 

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I know your RTR is an Otari, and you have a lot of Mark Levinson electronics, but what is your French preamp?
Primare amplifier. Just looked up and it is actually Swedish. My bad. :)
 

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DAC & power supply: China (Topping)
headphone amp/preamp: US (JDS Labs)
speakers: US design, China build (JBL)
cable: pretty sure Japan (Canare) and US (Belden)
headphones: US (Etymotic)

would love to own a killer JDS Labs DAC, but maybe there is a Topping DX7 Pro in my future...
 

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Danish/American - -

Denmark:
Dynaudio Confidence 1 Mk. II & studio subwoofer 9S

U.S.:
PS Audio Directstream Memory Player and DS DAC
Merrill Audio Thor Mono Blocks
 

DKT88

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US System

Speakers: (Thiel) US
DAC (Topping) China
Turntable (NAD) UK
Tonearm (Rega) UK
Cartridge (Goldring) UK
Phono stage (Bottlehead) US
Preamp (Welborne Labs) US
Amplifiers (Curcio Audio) US
 

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I try to buy equipment manufactured in the U.K. where possible, not out of disdain for other countries or in to be keeping with the nationalist mental illness that is currently sweeping my country, just to support the local supply chain.
 

Phorize

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That said my topping dx4 has no uk made competitor, ditto my Allo digione. I’d use Harbeth speakers wherever I was in the world, just lucky for me that the greatest speaker manufacturer in the world happens to be British. Thinking about my grand proclamation above about not giving way to rose tinted nationalism, my Garrard 301 is purely an exercise in just that-mea culpa.
 

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Amplifier - Japan
CD player - Japan
Tuner - Japan
Floor standing speakers - UK
Active digital bookshelf speakers - UK
IEMs - USA
Headphones - Japan, Austria (Korea?), China
Headphone amplifier - USA
DAP - China
 

Juhazi

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Designed/Made in Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA and ??

Brands - AKG, Audax, Audio-GD, Audiolab, Beyma, B&G, B&O, Denon, (DIY), Dual, Glanz, Hypex, Infinity, JBL, LG, Minidsp, NAD, NHT, Objective, Onkyo, Peerless, PrimaLuna, Salora, Samsung, SB Acoustics, Scanpeak, SEAS, Sennheiser, Sonab, Sony, Thorens, Vincent, XTZ, Yamaha

And interconnects/cables/crossover parts from various places around the globe... (DIY speakers)
 
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Soniclife

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In the lounge.
TT - British
Cartridge - Japanese
Electronics - French
Speakers - Italian
Sub - German

In the office.
Active monitors - German

Out and about.
IEMs - American.
Phone - Chinese.
 

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