acctually, as my observation, audio brand which is already well known as good quality, like yamaha, jbl, bose, denon, etc. even if they were made in china, still their qaulity assurance is highly appreciated coz of their standard qaulity control for they dont want to risk their brand names to go down, they're only made in china but their gadget, materials, quality controls are not from china, only the assembly and the laborers are china so that they can save money...but talking about china auido products, they still have to established their products, and for sure they are still in the trial and error process, not like those famous brands, they already know how to make best quality audio......opinion lang po, base on my expeience on my low end audio gadget made from china, they all broke down in just a short period of time, not like my other audio gadgets made in different country...