Note: Measurements performed by BHK Labs can be found through this link.

It’s increasingly common for US and European audio companies to design products in-house, then have them manufactured in China. That practice has produced some very good-sounding, reasonably priced audio gear, but it doesn’t mean that there are no competent Chinese designers. My first encounter with a 100% Chinese audio company was Opera Audio, which designs and makes a wide assortment of equipment that it sells under the Consonance brand. Over the years I’ve reviewed several of their models, including a pair of speakers I liked so much I bought them.
Nor is Opera the only Chinese company capable of designing good audio gear; JE Audio, based in Hong Kong, offers an assortment of amplifiers and preamplifiers with their own unique flavor. In our April 2009 issue I reviewed JE Audio’s VS70 stereo amplifier, whose excellent sound, unusually attractive looks, and bargain price won it a Reviewers’ Choice award. And in our May 1, 2011 edition, our notoriously hard-to-please publisher, Doug Schneider, gave a Reviewers’ Choice award to JE Audio’s VL10.1 preamplifier, which he described as "shockingly good."
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