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Count me in for the next group buy then. :eek: :eek:

If I buy a broken pre with no EQ and lots of mains hum, will it mask my suck or just make me suck even worse? :confused:

You're cheerful today. If you'd been paying attention you'd have known I have been blaming my suckage for a long time now, this is not news.

Yikes. Are there a lot of people still waiting for stuff from this long ago?

Calm yourself down a bit there mate. You're replying to posts that are four YEARS old when, yes, we were very much favouring PCI and PCMCIA-based interfaces. There wasn't much USB 2.0 around then either. The world has changed, you just dredged up something ancient and got angry at it. :)

When did the truth ever do anything but fan the flames around this place?:p Altruism and good will are misunderstandings of what those people are trying to communicate. If I ran a bar and I saw a guy peddling undrinkably foul coffee on the street to unsuspecting passers-by who thought they...

How do you feel about knitwear?

No. I'm different. I moisturise.

Chris! Long time no see!! How are you?

You just needed a good bass player who had some groove. I'm available.

The law might be totally different in the States for all I know, but yes, on a credit card here you could get the money back. But then the credit card company (I know because I did this with a retailer who went bust on me last year) would try and recover their money from the original recipient...

Don't know how the law works over in China but in our system you would count as an unsecured creditor and be at the bottom of the pile for refunds if it went belly up. If you paid your way into the group buy via credit card, though, you could get cover from them and they would then probably...

No worries. The ex-retailer in me just went "what? That will never work" and it overpowered the occasional musician in me. One point though - compare the cost of making quality multi-track recordings now to even ten years ago, and tell me again that we're overpaying for our gear. We really...

So you're advocating a model where hundreds or thousands of strangers club together anonymously to make one order from a factory who knows they have neither the buying power nor the unanimity to do anything more than take a gamble on whether the equipment they purchase will work or not? And...

Warranties, technical support, quick turnarounds, proper documentation, holding of spare parts, holding of stock that can be bought etc etc etc ........... someone has to get paid to do all of that. Where does it fit into your model? And any factory will only take orders to manufacture in...

I think you have it figured out about right on all of those points. A little more of this sort of realism instead of naivety would have changed the complexion of this whole thing.

The question isn't who had rights and who designed the preamps that people bought .... if the TnC firm had designed them then they would have known they had fundamental flaws. PMI looked at it, fixed the EQ problems etc that 797 were stuck with, but decided against having it made. That means...

797 haven't been fraudelent, they've been extremely clear as far as I can tell on who designed this stuff. The bloke from 797 said as much himself. I believe I am right in saying it was a design 797 had knocking about which was passed to PMI (who I would guess are probably 797's biggest...