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True.
Mass production of that kind, which main mission is to mock mindlessly high quality products, slowly kills small business (I mean small audiophile companies). In the world of audio it's nothing good for us consumers, because there is no real competition of good products, but only a lot of cheap and low quality, and very small of more expensive decent products which are unable to support further development of newer in these small companies.
NOT true. Thats like saying "Damn Chevrolet, they keep making cheap mass produced cars, nobody will buy our Bentleys anymore!".
Very expensive products will always find their costumers, regardless of how many cheap products there are on the market, if not for any other reason, then because of sheer ignorance and greed.
Now, about Fiio E9 and similar examples.... Lets say a cheap $100 amplifier outperforms a more expensive $300 amplifier, then what are we talking about? We're talking about a certain product being overpriced. Another example: JDS O2 outperforms many amps that are on the market and cost 3-4 times more. In order to justify that price, the manufacturer of that more expensive product will have to step up their game and make a better one, improve it...in the end, customer benefits.
In the low end of the things, lets say there are many cheap products competing at about the same price. They too will have to fight between each other, since the only thing separating them is performance, they will have to step up and say "ok, we're better than those other guys, lets make people will buy our amp". And so on. Its a circle in which a customer will almost always gain. Now, as for working conditions in those mass production factories, thats a different story. If you would rather buy a 1000$ product that costs 50$ to build, instead of a 150$ product that costs 50$ to build, its your personal choice, but saying that its bad that all these big companies are making cheap, well made, great performing products, is just wrong.
