talk about tripe, recordingpro, did you remember where your posting? HOMErecording.com. very few us us are pros, very few, those "cheap chinese sh-t" your talking about are great for home guys who for the most part are not making pro recordings for people, some are, but they are good enough to make them sound good. I don't listen when I hear "this mic sounds like a mic 3X-10X it's price, I'm using it more often than my Neumans....dorf....dorf". Whatever, but they are good for US. If this wasn't the case this website would be called prorecording.com. Or as you said it before, gearsluts.com, so just go hang out there if you are such a purist prick that you can't look at anything that has a cheap price on it. For guys like me, it sounds ok, it does the job better than others in that price range, and until this place changes it's name to something with the word pro in it, it deserves a place here, unlike you.