As an American, I have no idea what any of this means. I’m just glad we won the war so we don’t have to drink warm leaf water.
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Different factory?
Eurotec Electronics is owned by Music Group, one of the world’s largest audio equipment manufacturers, making products for global brands like Behringer and Midas.
That article is from 2017, the music tribe factory in the video I commented on didn’t open until a year later.
You’ve probably only had a clone of our coffee from a sweat shop at a discounted price!
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Don’t talk to me about sweatshops, I’m from Leicester mate. We love sweatshops so much we kept them local when everyone else was outsourcing them.
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Seriously, who doesn’t want to buy their products???:
You can read the 1071 previous posts to figure it out 
Do you guys n gals only buy the expensive designer clothes or the high street cheap copies, the branded food or the cheap supermarket copies, or is this snobbery just for music hardware.
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Joke aside IMO the TD-3 is a really good product regarding price of the original or the boutique reissue from Roland.
For the rest of Uli’s cloning madness, I am not convinced. Not at all.
Personally, I will continue to support Moog and their in-production gear over blatant cash-grab clones. Because Moog are actually innovating (re things like the Subharmonicon). But if everyone stopped supporting them and bought Behringer instead, it could put Moog out of business. And then we can sure as shit expect no innovation from Behringer to replace them. R&D costs money!
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Why Craig?
Why?
Why feed them?
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Ha, I just scooted along to the end of the thread and saw that one that begged for a reply 
Feeling very happy I’ve lost the urge to reply to this topic anymore!
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And you’ve celebrated with a reply to this topic 
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When this thread resurfaces after a well needed hiatus I always think it’s about Star Wars on the first read. Then I realize the misery!
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Yes it does. ( Most of the time. Bolts from the blue often come for free, a side of just doing other things along the way. )
Problem with that explanation for the lack of blue skying, is that Behringer has plenty of money. Witness them experimenting with numerous prototypes, before making a product commit. That’s expensive. Or how about doing beta testing on products, that are a long way off from production, and then just sitting on the ready to go products, making no money from sales.
( Plus more examples. )
And R & D is almost never a large percentage of development costs anyways. At least not for this sort of thing.
No they have the dough, and the abilities, the choice of producing pre-existing hardware, has other explanations. I’ve offered my speculations on that before.
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Oh wow, I didn’t even realize! What a head scratcher!
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I don’t mind them cloning 40 years old vintage hardware, but stuff like Swing and rip-offs of other current products (even if it doesn’t look exactly the same) certainly leave a bad taste and won’t be buying any of those. There’s enough original gear for affordable prices to make music with anyway, new or used.
I’m off to play with my yellow TD-3 and Neutron now 
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Trying to defend better companies over blatant bad ones isn’t snobbery.
And i do it regarding music gear because it’s the domain i care about the most.
If only everyone did it in the domain they care about the most…
But you can’t support only ethical companies on all fronts as it would be an impossible life.
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