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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Postilnik" data-source="post: 436" data-attributes="member: 184">One of the tenants in the warehouse building where I rent space is a local flight-case and custom cabinet builder. While he was fixing a case of mine he told me how a local rental house asked him to build copies of their expensive line-array boxes so they could fit them with cheaper drivers and rent out a &#039;&#039;B&#039;&#039; system that looked the same but didn&#039;t sound as good.As a small sound company owner, this seems to me to be kind of a fishy practice. I believe the client should know that when they pay more, they get more, and when they pay less, that sacrifices are being made. I also believe that people should be more educated about how the equipment works, not less. Obviously it&#039;s a much cheaper way to get a sexy line-array system (I don&#039;t know HOW much cheaper, actually), but it still strikes me as pretty cutthroat. Is this a common practice? I&#039;ve only heard of people swapping drivers out for cheaper components intentionally at sheisty music resale shops.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Postilnik, post: 436, member: 184"] One of the tenants in the warehouse building where I rent space is a local flight-case and custom cabinet builder. While he was fixing a case of mine he told me how a local rental house asked him to build copies of their expensive line-array boxes so they could fit them with cheaper drivers and rent out a ''B'' system that looked the same but didn't sound as good. As a small sound company owner, this seems to me to be kind of a fishy practice. I believe the client should know that when they pay more, they get more, and when they pay less, that sacrifices are being made. I also believe that people should be more educated about how the equipment works, not less. Obviously it's a much cheaper way to get a sexy line-array system (I don't know HOW much cheaper, actually), but it still strikes me as pretty cutthroat. Is this a common practice? I've only heard of people swapping drivers out for cheaper components intentionally at sheisty music resale shops. [/QUOTE]

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