Ex BBC Sound Recordist here, one of the current scams affects the security of Kit when on Location. Neumann U87s swapped out for poor copies whilst in secure Hotel locations. Decades ago this was common for 16 and 35mm lenses, 20 years ago I saw it once with a Sennheiser hyper cardioid when the Mic had been sent to us in the NEC from a Football Game. Also beware of Company Accountants buying cheap Kit.
@ThemFuzzyMonsters
2 ай бұрын
I am really worried for Shure. Their flagship products are being extremely aggressively counterfeited, and the counterfeits distribution is very broad and effective.
@bradrapp3697
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like what Monoprice does. High end company has product made in China, once tooled up to make it and original order filled “fakes” are made.
@Synthematix
2 ай бұрын
Fakes, are you shure?
@ThemFuzzyMonsters
2 ай бұрын
I see what you did there!! 😂
@pipelineaudio
2 ай бұрын
Is this considered fake because Shure didn't sell it or because Shure didn't make it? We've had a lot of cases of "fakes" lately where its just a case of the factory who makes a product selling it directly to the consumer
@pauljohnson4590
2 ай бұрын
I have experience of that but here it seems the capsule has identical capsule but different wire colours? Only a guess but I wonder if Shure source the capsule from an OEM source and they just made a pile more with enough difference to be 'not' Shure? Would different colours be enough? I think I have detected another small difference in the threads the basket screws onto. Slightly less turns? The fake one needs about one turn less from where the thread begins?
@ThemFuzzyMonsters
2 ай бұрын
It is a counterfeit the instant it says Shure on the product while not being sold by Shure. I also don’t think Shure manufactures in Asia (I believe only US, Mexico, and Germany), so this wouldn’t be an OEM going rogue.
@pauljohnson4590
2 ай бұрын
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters not quite. Tesco sold jeans made by wrangler but they bought them diverted from another country. Technically that makes them a grey import, but genuine. If you build something from spare, genuine parts is that a genuine product?
@tricogustrico
2 ай бұрын
Darn good fake
@pauljohnson4590
2 ай бұрын
I bet loads are out there with unaware owners - The difficult bit is the castle, and it is identical as far as I can see, and the mounting I just can't see a difference.
@ThemFuzzyMonsters
2 ай бұрын
I don’t think there is a “good” fake. 😅
@pauljohnson4590
2 ай бұрын
I prodded one of the rubber mounts too hard ns it split but a dab of ca glue was fine
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