Excerpt from my huge reservoir of audio prejudices:
Cable sound: big fat prejudice as I don't believe in it (True? I don't know)
70's Philips HiFi stuff in Europe: as bad as it was ugly (True? I don't know)
Russian, Eastern Europe HiFi stuff: terrible, unprofessionally built, 100% plastic...
Two Russian oligarchs meet in the streets of Moskow and they notice that they're both wearing the same tie. "Hey, where did you get yours and how much did you pay?" one of them asks. "Um, I paid 500 US$ and I bought in it that shop over there". "You stupid fool! I bought mine in the shop around...