Chi-Fi in the Time of Self-Righteous Indignation.

I had been a fan of the "Made in USA" banner, but honestly is "Made in USA" even a hallmark of quality anymore? We can clearly still make stupid good stuff (ARC, VAC) but it seems to me like Germany/Denmark/Switzerland/Japan/? is where the very top class of high end manufacturing is focused these days.

Chinese manufactured products can indeed be very high quality when very tightly controlled. The problem is that takes investment to do right. And in the meantime there’s still mountains of audio junk being produced there (I mean the really cheap crap, not anything with a recognizable brand name), including counterfeit knock-off cables and clone amps - hence the so-called derogatory terms like "Chi-fi". What are you supposed to say when some noob says they want to try tube amps, ignores all the decent vintage / kit / used suggestions and then follows up with "I just bought this" and an amazon or aliexpress link to a $400 POS. That is rightly called "Chi-fi" 😂

I think there is some humor to be found in knock-offs…. 🤣

Pretty sure we are reaching peak PC. Crying "racism" in order to shut people up has gone from scary to effective to now a joke. Chi-fi is racist? Really? REEEEE!!!

Meanwhile, in China, there are T shirts which say,

"Remember the Pinto."

"Remember...

Zune

New Coke

the Newton

the Edsel

Cheetos Lip Balm

Harley Davidson perfume

United States Football League

With the incessant use of political memes in these threads for some time now, is it coincidence that a lot of the right wing are made up of con men, shysters, shillers and grifters and that audio is not immune from the very same characters?

They seem to go hand-in-hand. By the way, what happened to the other threads on this subject? Were they deleted for convenience sake or did someone take umbrage? 

All the best,
Nonoise