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China built tube amps
For me it’s primarily a moral issue: When was the last time we had a dictatorship putting millions of people in concentration camps because of their ethnicity??  
What do $2500 speaker cables sound like?
They sound like money flying out the window... 
Synergistic Research Fuses vs cheaper ceramic fuses
Synergistic Research is a con...  plain and simple.These are just commercial fuses with fancy labeling and a bunch of pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo made up to shucker you in.Con men prey on our "expectation bias" with their pitch.  If anyone paid th... 
Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse?
A good example of why physiatrists consider audiophilia an obsessive compulsive neurosis...This is what is wrong with our hobby: Con men are taking advantage of our irrational behavior."Voodoo dose work if you believe in it. But science works whet... 
Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ?
Having designed a lot of electronics in my career, I feel strongly that companies not willing to show internal photos are hiding something. The argument that they are protecting intellectual property just doesn't hold up, as its nearly impossible ... 
Do chinese tube preamp/amp clones interest you?
No.  It's more of a moral choice...  When was the last time in recent history a dictatorship put a million people in labor camps?