Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier?

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.

Some facts cannot be an exageration....Some can...

They exist or not, like his conference at Harvard officially recorded, or like his description of black hole in a book... Then affirming after that that some facts are exagerated, yes probably some are.... But the main point of his genius in history is not and even cannot be negated nor reduced because of the others proven facts....Superficial scepticicism can negate it , founding a new sceptic club, and calling it a myth.... 😁

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

Whithout offending you ,you are beside the point...The fact that thephilosophy of your time has no appeal to you does not means the same thing in your case than in the case of Goethe...

Can you understand and state clearly why for example Charles Sanders Peirce denying some Kant point of view, reverse to it in his own way, promoting a kind of phenomenology very different than Goethe one...

You cannot , not because you are not interested, but mainly because that does not make sense for you.... Then you cannot assimilate Goethe understanding of phenomenology from his reading of Spinoza against the nominalism of his time, and your own desinterest for your own contemporary philosophers neighbours motivated by a lack of understanding to his complete understanding... No?

Intelligence is not I.Q. and cannot be overated....

I.Q. is always overrated.... Marilyn Vos Savant is supposed to be on par with Goethe in I.Q. points...There is even NO comparison at all between the genius of one and the real and very great intelligence of this woman tough...