Hey guys,
Sorry to be scarce around here. We've been tied up in production (big shock, huh?) Shipments of Valhalla should accelerate next week.
To answer a few questions:
1. If the post isn't from me, it isn't from Schiit. Mike Moffat is scared of these newfangled communications things. He likes to hide at his bench.
2. Caps and resistors? Dales, Nichicons, Wimas, Cornell-Dubilier. Good-quality parts for the price, in short. Will they set the audiophile world on fire? Probably not. Is the amp tuned to work very, very well with them? Yep. Will we have a higher-end amp full of Black Gates, etc etc? Nope. That's not how we roll, sorry.
3. PCB made in China? Nope. The PCB, chassis, and transformers are all made here. They are all assembled here. We are all about making things here--really--not throwing a cord in a box and saying "made in USA." The vast majority of our production cost goes to US companies. Nor are we about hiding where things come from (our tubes are Russian, and our Alps pot is Japanese, like it says on our site.)
Hope this clears some things up.