Arny Krueger wrote:
> "Ron(UK)" <ron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:beGdnRA4PpcNQpzVnZ2dnUVZ8uednZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Arny Krueger wrote:
>>> "Ron(UK)" <ron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> I can honestly state without fear of
>>>> contradidction that I have never ever bought a chinese
>>>> handbag.
>
>>> ; - )
>
>>> No female significant other, I take it?
>
>> You take it incorrectly then, I've been happily married
>> for 22 years and so has my wife.
>
> I'm happy for you both. Sue and I are past the 41 year mark. I think we
had
> a head start! ;-)
>
>> I wouldn`t insult her by buying her a cheap handbag off
>> the internet.
>
> It's not clear to me that these bags are cheap in the negative sense of
the
> word.
>
> I agree that I would not buy a handbag for my wife that she had not
> approved. My wife does buy clothes off the web, and I could see her
picking
> up on one of these ads, and eventually asking me to complete the
transaction
> using my PayPal account. It would obviously be a big risk, and I'm
morally
> against buying things from people that spam.
>
>>>> Wonder why the Chinese don't spam AAPLS with offers of
>>>> bogus Beta58`s and Sennie wireless? [1]
>
>>> I don't believe that the Chinese have found AAPLS at
>>> all, at least in the sense that they have found say RAP.
>
>> Sci.electronic.repair is swamped with spam atm. but it`s
>> not for fake transistors and dodgy multimeters.
>
> Or fake Shure mics? ;-)
Interestingly, some of the cheap Chinese mikes are rebranded as
'quality makes' (or is that the other way round). For instance, I
recently bought several excellent hanging choir mikes from a wholesaler
for £6 each (about $12 I think) knowing that they are in fact exactly
the same mike as an AudioTechnica mike which normally trades out around
£50.
The only difference as far as I can see is the label on the phantom
power adaptor, and the seemingly generic plastic case the things come
in. The XLR to mini XLR power unit costs £30 if you buy it separately.
There`s a very common lav, which in chinese disguise is less than £5, as
a Sennheiser, it`s around £45.
Those Chinese 'NoBrand' lightweight headsets at around £30 ($60) are
excellent both in value and performance. I bought a couple because a
slide show presenter with whom I was working is very rough with headsets
and I didnt want him breaking my expensive Sennie. The Chinese cheepie
actaully sounds better than the £130 Sennheiser and if he breaks it it`s
no big deal.
Ron
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