> if forced to choose blindly I'd pick Sony over WMFSENSY.

Only at the same price. If there's a big discount, I'm going to prefer the random letter jumble from China because it's probably a standard design that a lot of factories are producing because it works well enough.

The only reason I lean towards Sony all things being equal is because I know that Sony gets sued when things go wrong, and won't just drop the brand and close up shop like the random letter jumble.

Also I would prefer Sony if lead would be a problem somewhere in the thing I'm buying.