Bob,
Yes agreed. As a musician when I'm doing nothing else, I have often been offerd the new VOX amps, of course made in China. Not the reliable valve sets but transistorised knock offs.
Whatever is said about them, they still can't get that final quality edge on this type of kit. A bit like those NO4 tins and the telescopes they tried to copy. All the measuremenst were slightly off, but they did come from Taiwan where things tend to be made better.

I tried out a pair of real Sennheiser headphones yesterday and tried them against this lot that arrived.
The ear cushions are made well, (but so are their 3 piece suites made in leather and sold as fine Italianicon suites), the downside IMHO you can hear a more treble sound delivery in both ears that you don't have in a real pair. Minor, but major if you like pure sounds from a good mic.