| I think buying a mixer in this new and bleeding edge price range is a real crapshoot.
I've heard the bad news myself from several people I know who own one and on a few different forums now. It's not an isolated case of one or two individuals having issues. I hear more good things about the ATB form people who have purchased ones more recently but in the beginnning there was a lot of complaints. I've read through the threads. The PMI people passed these complainers off saying they expected too much for the money or didn't know how to setup and work a board. Read the threads as I have and you will see for yourself the sort of ingnorance that PMI has.
I think all these changes we are hearing about are part of a tactic that many bad companies try out. They create the first version of the product using the lowest costing method. Then sit and wait for a response until the product is out in the field for a while to see what they can get away with to see what the majority of customers will find acceptale or not. These kinds of companies will try to get away with as much as they can to save money to make money. So when the customers bitch about poor calibration. Then the comapny makes a move to better quality components as a resonse to customer demands. They have to please the largest percentage of their customer base to stay profitable and keep the business going. It's how business works these days unfortunatley. |