Oppie wrote:

"ChairmanOfTheBored" wrote
"Oppie" wrote:

Monster and Lemo are both way too expensive. Too much money left over to
feed lawyers...

Lemo is at least a REAL premier connector manufacturer. Monster has
their petty crap made by a cheap Chinese fab house, and they carry ZERO
standard conformances. Any "gold plating" will be so thin that one can
see the base metal color shining through it. That's ****ing thin!

I just saw a huge demo display case of Lemo's offerings today at work.

They are more "worth it" than anything monster ever thought that they
"designed".

There was an open house for vendors. They all show up, and bring about
20 pizzas and 100 sodas, etc.

I saw some pretty cool systems.

You must work for a pretty large operation. I remember when I worked at
Union Carbide Medical Products Division some 25 years ago. Vendors would
take you to lunch, give you freebies and what not. For the last 25 years,
I've been with a small mom and pop operation. Lucky if we get a fruit basket
at New Years from vendors now. When a vendor comes in to show off their
wares, I offer *them* coffee. Still, I really like working for the small
company. Things get done with a minimum of arguments and overhead.

I know what you mean. I was however quite surprised when the TI rep brought in
the 'boys from Dallas' with him one time. There were about 4 of them, all DSP
experts. I had to explain to them that their current DSPs were really too
high-end for ultra-competitively priced semi-pro audio. $16 or so is way too
much.


Graham