Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier?

sorry to revive an old thread - i found it because i was investigate a chinese clone amp.

but all this china bashing is really a bit absurd and misplaced, imo.  the FACT is that you can thank all the western mega-corporations for helping to create what is china today.  they're the ones who, in search of ever more profits to pad their and their rich stockholder profits, decided to offshore their manufacturing to take advantage of cheap labor, and non-existent safety and environmental regs to rip off western consumers, selling the goods at the same prices as if they cost the same to produce.  and decimating the working class in their own countries.

you reap what you sow...

Let sleeping dog lie. Why resurrect this thread? Who care buy what you want from who you want. Free market. 

I was the owner of a company that made work over rigs (like a mini oil derrick on wheels for fixing wells).  We had a supplier in China who manufactured certain parts for us.  Had QC problems that we helped them through.

Ton”reward us”, they would make 100 parts for us (a part they was largely consumable) and 100 parts for them they would sell with our name on it.  Identical stuff.  Realized there is zero way to stop the theft.  They straight up thought it was fine to do.  No concept of personal property rights.

So we stopped using them and changed our specs arbitrarily so their part wouldn’t fit.  They went broke.

This is 100% true of anything made in China.  

There is a tube, class a/b with dac I am trying to get my hands on to review. USD $1900. Should be interesting…