On 28/10/2016 00:30, bm wrote:

Audiolab, Quad, Mission, Wharfedale and Castle Acoustics
are all now labels owned by a firm based in Shenzhen,
China.

Yes and my Aiwa -
http://supreme2.ru/images/aiwa-z-d9300m2.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAyNFg1NzY=/z/TFUAAOSwI-BWPQZN/$_86.JPG
which I paid ~£1k for maybe ~30 years back were bought out by Sony.
Still sounds pretty good though.
Deffo needs a few caps changing.

I think mentioning Aiwa in the same context as manufacturers as those
like Quad is a bit of a joke.