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!
>
>It wasn't substandard when we designed it, just after you guys changed the
>laws! 

Got to keep you on your toes, heh heh.

>I mean, jeez. If the music is good, who cares if it stops a pacemaker or
>two? :-)

Hey, that's what the music's for!

>>> 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.
>Strats have to pass CE too! At Gibson, we were actually scanning Les Pauls
>for EMI problems. It was crazy.

Bloody hell...

OK, but gtrs etc were stupid prices even before CE....

Michael