+1 on Superlux. Made in Taiwan.
Besides Japan, USA manufacturers have had a relationship with Taiwan longer than China. For what ever that is worth.
I can say, WAY back in maybe 1998 or 99, I was in a pawn shop here in North America. I saw a mic that vaguely resembled a Shure KSM32. Or maybe 44. Similar body shape.
We have a lot of military here in this area, and my guess is somebody brought this mic from overseas (I had never seen nor heard of Superlux) and sold it.
I asked to look at it, and the guy behind the counter let me unscrew the housing / body and look at the inside.
ELNA and WIMA polypropylene caps, nice big shielded output transformer, solid pcb, metal film resistors etc.
Well made mic. Nothing in there you would upgrade except capsule and transformer, and at that point? buy different mic!
I have over 150 mics now, and i kept this Superlux.
The body rang a bit, so I damped it with plasti-dip coating.
Other than this, that mic has done a nice job for me.
I had this (back in the lean years) many times in front of the bass drum, outside. Poor (very poor) man's FET47.
Honestly, never once did I think
"I gotta get a new outside kick mic for the next drum session."
I eventually did get a new mic for this, but made some good drum recordings with that Superlux. Great mic. Not overly bright, with immense, solid bottom end response. Also their schoeps style ORTF mic is pretty good as well. Not a schoeps, but it's damn good.
To get back on topic, here in the USA we can order from Thomann, via their US site of course. But it has to ship from the EU.
I think they get overlooked a bit as a seller here as a result.