On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:08:40 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
wrote:



Asitappens, I have discussed these Swiss 'generic replacements' with
Avril at Mantra in some detail and she assured me that they were very
popular and I'm sure she said that she had only ever had one returned
from a customer that wasn't too happy with it.

Unfortunately, that does not mean either that they track as well as the
original genuine article, nor that the levels of distortion, compliance,
etc, are similar to the orginal.



No, I'm sure you're right, but I recall Avril was keen to stress they sold a
lot of them and almost every single of their customers were very happy with
them. (If you stop to think about it, a manufacturer of *only* replacement
styli isn't going to risk getting a global reputation for crap and thereby
not last very long, if he can avoid it, is he??)


No but he probably makes his reputation (and his money) on the
bread-and-buter stuff, where he is doubtless every bit as good as the
original. He is probably only doing the exotica for completeness of
his catalogue.

d

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