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Browsing around AliExpress I came across........

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Every now and then I receive notifications from AliExpress and, among the many times, I happened to come across this article (B&W clone speakers), but in your opinion, how interesting and how truthful are the feedback reported at the bottom of the link


Then I wonder how a pair of speakers, which B&W sells for a thousand euros, can be sold for just over €1,370.00 including shipping
Browsing around AliExpress I came across........ 1f615

Those who bought them, I read, were very pleasantly surprised.... but some of you have them or have something similar, I don't want to buy them but I'm curious to know if there is anyone who has them and if, perhaps as I advise a Laughing friend, they are worth it.

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WOULD YOU BUY THEM?
 
well this is pretty simple to me

1st up, you have to have drank the B&W koolaid

2nd... you can buy a kit car that looks the same as a Lamborghini or Ferrari but what engineering has been done under the skin to perform like the car they copy?

ALSO I note it has free ship... but they are 120kg a pair and I assume 'monkey coffin' shaped crates
 
801's are 100 kg each and 802's are 90 kg each.
Something went missing during the knock-off :facepalm:
 
Then I wonder how a pair of speakers, which B&W sells for a thousand euros, can be sold for just over €1,370.00 including shipping
Why are you surprised? Have you not seen such stuff before?

I'd rather would be asking, how B&W manages to sell their speakers for such a price when there are many others that are superior and cheaper.
 
Why are you surprised? Have you not seen such stuff before?

I'd rather would be asking, how B&W manages to sell their speakers for such a price when there are many others that are superior and cheaper.
So is B&W exaggerating?
Or are they the ones who, by copying, can afford such low prices?
 
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2nd... you can buy a kit car that looks the same as a Lamborghini or Ferrari but what engineering has been done under the skin to perform like the car they copy?
You don't have to look under the skin to see that these are substantially different in finish and construction from the originals.
(Reminds me of an SF story in a Groff Conklin anthology about making a skin-deep-only copy of a human.)
 
We buy it for the social status it can bring, so a copy of a Rolex has little interest. You can buy old RRs too (there's one for sale here for $35,000: if you're in love with your gas station attendant, don't hesitate!)...
On Ali express (it all starts with that name already), I was even disappointed by their electrical outlets, so...
There are ads for pure scams like this Vevor ultrasonic washer for about $60 but no that's the price of the internal rotor, otherwise it's worth the return to normal = $200, like everywhere in the West...
I would pass, in my immense leniency, on the photo of a very beautiful low-level moving coil cartridge, with a red-tinted wooden body of the most beautiful effect at $65, but damn it, another miss, it's the price of headshell (not even shown on the illustration, in all honesty huh, why bother with PRINCIPLES).
And a very nice copy of the golden Technics headshell ah but hell and eternal damanation, there is no connector and as there are TWO pins on the rear hole, impossible to mount one! Fa-bu-lous!
Also they like rust, basic ingredient of any metal object they have. Humidity no doubt.
 
But I noticed that in this forum there are many products made in China and also purchased on AliExpress, and those who have reviewed them speak highly of them.
So I ask myself and I ask you made in China yes, or made in China no? It seems to me that here we are asking to throw the baby out with all the dirty water.
 
They are clearly a dodgy, poor quality, half-assed copy of B&W loudspeakers. Anyone who buys this garbage deserves everything that comes with it.
 
I feel it's sad.
They just play with people's wishes.
It's the exact equivalent as if selling a third world poor teen a fake Prada t-shirt for $2.
I hate such frauds.
 
But I noticed that in this forum there are many products made in China and also purchased on AliExpress, and those who have reviewed them speak highly of them.
So I ask myself and I ask you made in China yes, or made in China no? It seems to me that here we are asking to throw the baby out with all the dirty water.
I would say it depends. They can very easily do the equivalent of Western or Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean productions. And not only under their management.
After all, they manufacture a lot of semiconductors, spare parts.
But you have to buy on a case-by-case basis. Several brands have disappeared overnight: Oppo no longer manufactures electronics; Opera seems to have become Consonance with very few new products; will Tonewinner last? So don't buy too expensive.
 
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