Style ... or more to the point, continuity.
In an effort to launch new products every 2 weeks, design is all over the place.
It's not always bad, quite the opposite. They are capable of making good looking stuff but once they do, in an effort to 'improve' the next product due in a fortnight, it's changed again.
Then there are the nomenclatures, about as inventive as locomotive numbers.
There are exceptions but the Toppings, SMSL etc sure are not.
Pride of ownership surely must go out of the window too with your product bettered, changed, re-named umpteen times a year.
They are production machines fuelling the West's need for 'progress' even though most of what came out the last two years probably sounds exactly the same, especially if they use off the shelf stuff with chips from ESS etc. ... probably difficult to make a product with those sounding bad unless completely incompetent.
If you want to support Chinese products, why not choose ones that actually had some thought and care put into it. They are there.
That is if you are not too bothered by SINAD or 6 decimal point distortion numbers that actually don't matter a jot anymore once past a certain point.
In an effort to launch new products every 2 weeks, design is all over the place.
It's not always bad, quite the opposite. They are capable of making good looking stuff but once they do, in an effort to 'improve' the next product due in a fortnight, it's changed again.
Then there are the nomenclatures, about as inventive as locomotive numbers.
There are exceptions but the Toppings, SMSL etc sure are not.
Pride of ownership surely must go out of the window too with your product bettered, changed, re-named umpteen times a year.
They are production machines fuelling the West's need for 'progress' even though most of what came out the last two years probably sounds exactly the same, especially if they use off the shelf stuff with chips from ESS etc. ... probably difficult to make a product with those sounding bad unless completely incompetent.
If you want to support Chinese products, why not choose ones that actually had some thought and care put into it. They are there.
That is if you are not too bothered by SINAD or 6 decimal point distortion numbers that actually don't matter a jot anymore once past a certain point.
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