Difference in quality in products made in China?

Parasound was the first American company in the early 80's
to manufacture offshore in Asia. Their products have been manufactured in Taiwan for over thirty years. The biggest company in China that provides OEM services for Audio companies in Europe and the U.S. is IAG. The International Audio Group. Companies such as Vincent Audio, Cayin, BMC and Prima Luna just to name a few, have all their manufacturing done in China. Many of the mid-line speakers from B&W are made in China at B&W's own factory. All Polk speakers are made in China. The best quality produced in China are American and European companies that have their own employee's living in China to
oversee quality control and production. IAG production of electronics is the best in China. Hi-Vi Corp. in China is right behind IAG. Hi-Vi owns Swans speakers and produce forty thousand speakers a month for a world wide network. They are the largest manufacturer of speaker driver's in Asia and have the largest Anechoic chamber in Asia. They currently have under construction a large production campus of multiple buildings that when complete, will surpass IAG.

Also..as most are aware nowaday's, all laptop and desktop computer's are made in China, a market that China has taken away from Japan during the past seven year's. Japan still hold's strong in the Chip market, high end audio and television's, but in the foreseeable future China
and South Korea will take those market's away from Japan as well leaving them their strongest industry, automobile's.

I neglected to include that 70% of all Luxman products are now made in China by IAG, which also own's Luxman. Other companie's that are now owned by IAG who manufacture's their product's is Wharfedale, Quad, Mission and Castle Speaker's as well as Audiolab.

Additional info..KEF speakers is owned by a Chinese Company, GP Acoustics, based in Hong Kong. KEF's top line speakers are made in the U.K. but their mid and low line speakers are made in China. GP Acoustics also owns Arcam and Celestion.

Rodmann99999...I clicked on the link you posted to the toxic chemical found in syrup in China known as Diethylene Glycol. This chemical has also been showing up in Audio components manufactured in China such as Preamps. Extensive investigation by the U.S. Department of Health has found the chemical imbedded in volume knobs and push buttons on the front of Preamps. By using the control's on the Preamp causes the chemical to absorb into the blood stream. The chemical only becomes lethal when playing the final movement of the 1812 Overture. 17 Audiophiles during the past eighteen months have dropped dead in their sound rooms from the chemical listening to the exploding cannon's in the Overture.

China reformed their educational system in the early 80's which resulted in better educated students. In the 60's the U.S. school's were number one globally with the highest SAT score's but when the AFL-CIO took control and unionized the teacher's in the 70's education quality in the states has been on a downward spiral ever since.

The Communist part of China loves our money but hates our culture, but the current criminals we have in Congress are moving us closer than ever before to a police state Orwellian government, so its just a matter of time we will be like China. The underground liberation groups in China respect what we have left of our Republic and love Americans. Its only the racists against China in the U.S. that fail to recognize the extreme contrasts in China and the changes they went through in 1948. China is a mixed bag just like the U.S. and the certain companies in China manufacturing very high quality electronics are the Asians that embrace capitalism more and and respect free enterprise and open markets we have in the states. As long as I'm aware of these certain companies and the pride they have in what they make I'll never have a problem buying Audio components made in China. After all, your laptop computer is made in China.

I actually met a seven foot pygmy by the name of Nelson at LAX in 2009 while waiting for a connecting flight. He was with his Agent and informed me he just signed with the Laker's.

Grave mis-justice? To the Pygmie's or to the Laker's?

Good point Tubegroover. Good example was Beethoven. He was only 5'6" in height and had short but very strong finger's. His two top piano competitor's during the 1790's in Vienna were Hummel and Josef Wolffi and they both had very large hands and long finger's but were no match against Beethoven who never lost a piano competition in the palace's of Vienna between 1792 and 1798. Its all in the mind.