CD player NOT made in China under $1,000?

There's the Rega Apollo.

Don't quite accept the quality reference though.

Regards,

Rich

Used Naim cd-5i. Great sounding cdp IMHP. I have seen them here on A'gon in your price range. Good luck.

No there is not. If you want a "made in quality" piece you will have to pay $2500+ to cover the $30 an hour plus benefits an uneducated semi-illiterate American assembly line worker would command. Oops, I forgot - all those jobs have been outsourced to China.

Njoe Tjoeb 4000. I have heard it a few time and been impressed. I am not sure of the origin of all the parts.

http://www.upscaleaudio.com/view_category.asp?cat=50

Kira- all American assembly line workers are "uneducated semi-illiterate" individuals? Really?

So should we assume that a Chinese assembly line individual would be better educated?

Of course Chinese manufacturing has it's advantages. If the Chinese guy fails to show for work, the State police go to his hovel and investigate. And the worker has very little access to information that is not filtered by his employer or government, so he can concentrate better on the task at hand.

There is no doubt that the Chinese are building very high quality products these days. But in no way are the two economic systems you contrast remotely alike. I'm not a union man, and I am a free market, free enterprise booster. But that whole communist angle makes the comparison between US and Chinese manufacturing a bit more tricky than it might appear.