Can totally understand that. I believe their footswitch though is made in China though. And while software and possibly some assembly is in the USA, I would wager a LOT of the internals aren't. We like what we like, but it's such a global economy nowadays that you're going to be hard pressed to find anything 'Made in USA' entirely.
Helix is made in the USA and that's why we in the united states were waiting for the shipment from China
I buy what works, According to some I guess I made a mistake by buying the Kemper for $1600 from Musicians friend with a 20% discount and the amp models and effects, to boot, are in a much higher league than the AXE FX II at $2500 based on first hand trying and playing both. never mind the fact that with the Kemper I'm able to model my own amps and other modelers perfectly inside one box while the AXE FX II is an insult to my intelligence claiming tone match (decades old EQ matching) is the same as profiling.and still I haven't seen one video by line 6 or Fractal at their website to support their claim of accurate modeling by showing the actual amps,so because they can write code and they're my country men, I should take their word at face value, that their modeling is accurate and based on real world amps and not on schematics.
I'm a mildly skeptic man and if you don't show me the amps, your modeling is mostly paper schematic . I'll give no more than $500 for schematic based modeling without demonstration of the claimed imaginary amps as far as I'm concerned.until I see at least a picture of some employee posing with said amps that they modeled as a beginning! It's the 21 century with God knows how many photos and videos hosting website, yet non of these amps make an appearance. The only thing I have so far is maybe a lone individual sworn testimony in a message board that he heard from someone who works for said company or companies that they try meticulously to accurately model real worlds amp!