Impact of Tariffs on Audio Market

Tariffs are not a mere isolated tactic of T. You cannot evaluate this tactic multidimensional effects out of the monetary flows (digital,paper and gold) and geopolitic and control and their digital transformation in the midst of a war.

Said the guy who call me insane because of my posts on acoustics ...

Buy a mirror...

By the way the carbon footprint is a corporate racket....

And a third world country is a country where people has bad basic  infrastructures and no hospital care, no education  without big  money. This ring a bell ?

America is an empire not a country anymore since a long time now...

I must say about your insane rant i understand  your anger though...

I condemn not your opinion but your ad hominem attacks...

And your rant is not better than mine when i did one...

Its ok to reduce your carbon footprint and become a ’3rd world-ish’ country, i suppose. I used to backpack all over rural areas in Central Asia, nepal, thailand, etc in my younger days. It was more fun that way.

This whole shallow ultra-materialistic destructive culture kinda sucks actually. In spite of it all, all the materialism, every goofus in town needs to pop a few pills to feel the slightest ounce of happiness.

Hope the Chinese stop exporting anything to this country altogether.... and the proud Walmart shoppers pounce on each other like rats as the shelves run empty.....the trailer park will get off welfare, quit being lazy, grow some smarts, get organized and manufacture everything here in town apparently... yeah right...

A distribution chain around earth is more complex than an audio system...

Most dont understand how to install an audio system...

 Then they dont even "see" what is a distribution chain  complexities under disturbances...

 Also this tariff game is not a game it is a real war already in place ...

Audio is the last of my thought here...

It seems some think this tariff war is a poker game with a winner  without disruption of the distribution chain, without geopolitical consequences, as a  simple game of poker around a table...

I will laugh if it was not tragic...

Or you could buy an excellent Canadian DAC

I did not stumble  on one offered new and minimally good at 200 bucks ...

Did they exist at this price in Canada?

 We are not all budget open without limit...I was looking for something around 200 bucks like a minimal  Geshelli from US ...

By the way this hobby for me was more about learning acoustics than buying the most costlier and the best gear design in the world...

Anyway i am very proud to own two high end gear piece of the past which are my main music system :  The Sansui Alpha model and the AKG K340, the only real hybrid headphone...

Then i know what a good sound is and what are the limitations of my system...

I live in Canada,( in a part of the country which cannot be bought by anyone), and i  was in the obligation to buy a new dac because my old one die...

Guess what  with  tariffs i opted to order from China instead of buying  one from the US...

Add a higher cost to begin with if i take one from the US compared to China, but quality had a price no ?

Yes but i am not on a big audio budget and with the tarifs +postal fees, i decided to order a Chinese one free of  postal fees and tariff  and i saved few hundred bucks...

 Will the US  gear would have been better ?

I think so...

 But i can do with  the Chinese less costlier one, well reviewed under comparison and not too well behind the American one...

Tarifs war in this actual world means war... By the way...i am too old to be enlisted by force...

Thanks for this interesting article...