Re: ECHOPLEX SHIPPING TO EUROPE

[pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk (Michael Pycraft Hughes, PhD)]

Kim:
>CE totally hosed a lot of small american manufacturers, by the way. Doing
>the design changes, getting EMI tests, managing the paperwork, etc. was 
>too
>expensive, so a lot of them had to stop selling in europe.

Serves ya right for making substandard gear!  Ha!

> The bigger companies could afford to make the changes and had the sales
>volume > to make it worthwhile; they just bumped the price way up. 

I'm amazed.  Aren't there decent standards held in the States?  

> That's why synths in europe cost way more than in the US now. 

Nah, that's just taxes and stuff.  Strats cost more here than there.  Going
strat price is over $1000 right now.