haha.
just look at the quality of the built of the guitar man.
i dun tink u shd trust all them MIK MIA MIK MIC too much.
generally though, i get what you mean.
a lot of ppl tend to veer toward MIAs and MIJs.
i hear japan's qc's way higher. but for fender strats,
which is what i'm using, i'm not a big fan of the feel
of the MIJ necks.
and naturally,
then its MIK and MIM and then MIC i guess...
but that's just generalizing i guess, and i think it's not
very fair to group them together like that.