Unusual countries for audio gear

@foggyus91 

They said that about Chinese cars a couple of years ago.  Chinese electric cars now lead the world ...

... China owns KEF, for goodness sake and probably makes half the electronics on the planet

@foggyus91

Ok what 'paid' of KEFs did you own?  What did you feed them with?  Obviously not 'overrated' Blades and not any of the Reference series ...

My Quad electrostatic ESL-2905 speakers were made in China. Are you going to claim these are not audiophile quality?

There is nothing on your system here!

@foggyus91 

I was pointing out that a lot of very good stuff does come from China, or is owned by Chinese interests.

One advantage of being in Australia is that we are almost equally far from everybody else, except New Zealand.  Everybody wants to sell us stuff and we have no barriers to trade!

Tend to agree with you on B&W though.

@foggyus91 

Thanks for the compliment about my adopted country, which by and large is hot!

One of the themes here is that cold climates might induce more thoughtful designs.  I found out through this forum that the coveted Dohmann turntables are from Melbourne, which is renowned for getting four seasons in one day.  On the other hand, our snow fields are bigger than Switzerland but give no signs of spawning any HiFi startups

@foggyus91 

Not relevant here, but rather surprisingly, Australia does export snow-making machines to Switzerland.  Climate change is making snowfall less reliable in both countries.

On the Supercars, they started as genuine production cars you could buy at car dealers.  The slogan was "Win at Bathurst on Sunday, buy on Monday".  So we had the fastest 4-door production cars in the world you could actually buy

My office in Canberra was bang in the middle of the parliamentary triangle and across the road from Parliament House.  For two years in a row, the Supercars raced right there, but winter in Canberra is too cold for the punters and we gave up holding that race!