ebay, 7c kit, worth it?

[jleaman]

Actually I respectfully disagree with Jaon's post. IMHO selling copies or supposed copies of long out of production electronic items is fine by me, especially copies of something that old. Weather or not the copy can replicate the sound of the original is something the buyer would have to determine himself... The price in the board kits is certainly reasonable enough. As far as selling copies of currently produced stuff or stuff with current standing patents that IMHO is a very bad thing!

Mark

I agree, i guess i should have mentioned that too, I could care less about older designes, but new ones that some one spent the time and money into building designing and putting hard work into, to have some * BBBEEEEEEEEPPPING* forgin country buy one take it apart CLONE THE CRAP out of it and sell it for the same price if not more and WAY less quality.

J'

 

[whitelabrat]

I had one of the Lite Audio LS7b which was a modified clone of the Marantz 7. It had a weird power supply and had a very high S/N. I wouldn't call it a complete rip-off, but I didn't think it was very good. Down right awful really. I ended up selling it off. There are much better designs like the Aikido. Recent designs often take advantage of years of experience and newer technology (test equipment) and can overcome some of the older designs weaknesses.

The PCB quality was good, but the circuit was half-baked.

Don't get me started about "R&D" (recieve and duplicate).