Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier?

Just a couple of observations, I was perusing eBay the other day looking at McIntosh. In the listings was a MC 275. It looked just like an MC 275 until they got to the detailed pics. The side of the unit had a different name (can't remember what it was but,) the McIntosh script name was something different, not McIntosh. Looked like it and included the 275 designation. Secondly, If anyone cares to remember the early Walmart ads touting everything was "made in America". That's long gone away. Now they'd pretty much have to say everything is "Made in China". The greed of corporate America has forced everything to China (or other off-shore locations). It's had nothing to do with unions or the tree huggers.  I've said it for years, if this trend continues, there will be no one left to buy the refrigerators. Their $15 an hr. minimum wage salary just won't get it. Pay people a living wage and stop padding the bottom line. Put the quality back into the products and not the profit. Sure, the stock values will decline a bit at first but how much is enough (profit)? Long live Madman Muntz!  AB

I don't know about amps but recently I have been exposed to complex computer cards performing complex operations manufactured by American companies which the Chinese have cloned PERFECTLY including the software and you can't barely tell if these are original or not, even more you contact the American company with the serial number and they verified was authentic (and I know it was a clone).

If they can do that they can easily clone and Amp

"Goethe was so intelligent that the philosophy of his time has no appeal to him..."

The philosophy of my time has no appeal to me, but I am aware that intelligence is overrated.

"...he was speaking almost all main European languages..."

Much bigger bragging rights would come with "...he was speaking almost all non-main European languages..."

Be it what it is, according to the almighty Wikipedia, it seems that some of the claims were exagerrated despite him clearly being an unusually gifted person.

If they can do that they can easily clone and Amp

I agree that they could and sometimes do,but they rarely (if at all) clone an amp perfectly.


As there is nowhere near as much reward in copying an amplifier ....as there is in copying even the most mundane of computer cards and/or computer technology.