Thanks Jake:

I would agree based on my Chinese-made hybrid integrated amp that the Chinese are in the midst of turning out very good audio equipment, and are currently fine tuning their processes. We're going to see the same cycle the Japenese went through.

I looked at the Shanling T80, and found it expensive (I think it was about $1200 US or so on Ebay). Based on that price, I didn't venture into their higher numbered models.