What was the point of this thread?  With so much doubt, why would anyone waste their time as well as other's with this display? It doesn't seem to me to serve any other purpose other than to troll. Which if that was the goal, it was quite successful.

If a reasonable person had a genuine interest in a product, but had second thoughts on it for various reasons, would'nt they simply wait for more feedback from new users that would be coming in the near future?

Lol Mike(!)

I truly have never comprehended the expectation that boutique audio or even kickstarter campaigns need to deliver on a fast food or off the shelf schedule.  What's the effin' hurry and why the unrealistic expectations?  Does the world revolve around one person's individual schedule somehow?  Learn to meditate or just go outside and look up at the sky.  Geez.

The best things in the world are worth waiting for.  You seriously make me want to burn my mail order bride catalog.

Well said. If you just want "a headphone amp" Music Direct has a whole bunch of them, and a very good product search system as well. Assuming they have stock, MD will ship it out the next day. If you want a Schiit headphone amp though as opposed to just whatever is immediately available at that price point, well then you have to be willing to operate on Schiit's terms. That just comes with the territory, it's no different than anything else. If you are unwilling to do that, don't buy the product.

Made in the USA doesn't really mean much of anything. Blaming Audeze's considerable faults on Schiit also seems rather unfair when the two of them have nothing to do with each other. If a US company has good designs, engineers, and strict production and QC standards, their products will likely be consistent and high quality. If not, they won't.

There are some stereotypes that generally hold true. The Germans tend to needlessly over-engineer and over-complicate things. The Germans and Japanese are generally the best at making knives (Wusthof, Global) and optics.

The Chinese will steal your IP if given any chance to do so, and similarly will use substandard parts if not watched like hawks. QC at Mexican plants can be ZOMG bad. See chewing gum inside Takata airbags. Honda is now getting a real lesson in this.

Made in the USA though at this point I just don't see as either a positive or a negative. Toyota builds in Kentucky and Indiana and their products are reliable. Nissan builds in Tennessee and Mississippi and their products are not reliable. Thats down to engineering and plant managing, not location.

When it comes to having put down a reasonable chunk of money for a product we haven't heard, I hope we all get our 60 seconds of time to whine while we wait to see if it fulfills our expectations. I mean, nobody likes the feeling of having spent a lot and then not being happy with the purchase. Listening first is ideal but not always possible.

I think wnmnkh maybe led with his chin a little (for the reasons people have pointed out), which took away from the sympathy some would have had for him.

Things would probably have been a little different if it wasn't for schiit.
Everyone re-read the first post and replace Schiit with Audio-gd and Audeze with Hifiman. I'm sure the reactions would be a little different (less passionate).

LOL, you kidding? If it were AGD or HFM, we would still have suggested to him to cancel his order and buy something else. Probably even passionately more so.