They're pretty straightforward for a fairly simple dual bander

sorry about that - I should have noticed!

I took great care with the recent comparison I did with the fake one, and made sure to mark the fake I bought? Have you seen that video, there's a close up of the insides of the one I've had for a while vs the fake? All the Beta 58's I have are circa 2019, or possibly 18? I'd be interested in seeing yours? that could be useful? I think mine came from Thomann - but 4/5 yrs is stretching the memory.

There are usually a pair of adam 7’s. The video was done in a transition time and in later videos you can see the Adam’s. From memory the d as pace other side the big screen actually had a pair of 12”/1” pa speakers as the project before would be using them. That studio is really the video studio. The audio recordings are normally in the other studio which does change if I can avoid it. Sorry to confuse

235 grams - the real ones are a tiny bit more.

ok..thanks....Thank God..mine is real

Thanks for this. I will check and report back. P

😂😂😂😂 lixo

I'm sorry, but this was all I found from the GoPro - I did have it all, but no idea now where it could be. Sorry.

The latest Mac is a decent spec mini Mac - and it is seamless - I have discovered one small annoyance. Cubase keeps forgetting it! Every time, no matter what boxes I tick in various menus, the INPUTs auto connect to the Behringer, but I have to manually set the outputs to it - every time. No idea what has changed, but I suspect it's not the interface - as adobe audition AND Steinberg Spectral Layers pick it up automatically, but Cubase Pro 13 is resisting me! I really like it. In any meaningful test, if it sounds different from the old Presonus and Tascam before it, I cannot hear it!

@@pauljohnson4590 good info, thank you. Price just dropped to $189 on it so I’m going to cop it.

I'll revisit the original files and report back when I can access them.

Interesting phantom power on mic circuits has never been a problem I have experience since my first BBC interview in the 70s - loads of circuits with permanent phantom. Certainly with modern designs, even the transformer less ones, it's never been an issue?

When you google you find the one being sold at a modest price which has better facilities - worth the price.

I see what you did there!! 😂

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?

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.

@@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?

As it happens, unlike most of the things I review, which just get put on a shelf, this is in daily use. I changed the video studio a bit since then and added a new editing PC, and this interface was sitting there, so I used it. The computer, when not on still supplies power to the interface, so it has been on 24/7 for months and works perfectly. In fact as I am using it to bring in two channels and output two channels, I forget it's actually doing something. My experience with Chinese gear is failures tend to be dead on arrival, or heat related, as in lighting power supplies and LED drivers. Audio interfaces are such low current devices, if they work, they stay working.

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.

I don’t think there is a “good” fake. 😅

I prodded one of the rubber mounts too hard ns it split but a dab of ca glue was fine

Indeed - I have a dump bin with the assorted mounts and cradles over the years - perhaps I was imagining something totally different - but I had not picked up on the internal suspension - cheers.

I’ve just noticed a new fake mic on ebay lots of them. I’ve ordered one to try against my original. I suspect that what could be happening is these really ARE Shures but the rejected ones from the Chinese plant. This could explained why they’re very, very similar. I’ll compare them when it arrives!

@@pauljohnson4590 No. They are NOT rejects from the SHURE plant. If they were rejects, they would be exactly the same as the original products in all respects, but for a blemish in the paint or some other minor flaw. Very similar does NOT make them EXACT copies ... Moreover, they are NOT rejects because A) SHURE does not sell rejects to anyone, and B) the knock offs are clearly different in several respects, and you only identified a few of these differences in your video - there are other differences as well, easily discovered if you do a full forensic comparison - I am a retired forensic lawyer for industry- while I appreciate your suggestion, I am confident SHURE does not sell rejects in retail packages with no indication they are seconds, which is illegal and enforced by the FCC in the US. All in good fun - thanks for the reply. JHT

@@JR-lx8nn Sorry - I didn't mean Shure sells them, but a number of well known manufacturers seem to find production fails being sold. Even worse, the system allows an OEM company to manufacture branded items that can then be sold as made in a totally different country. If you were making Brand A parts, and somebody else wanted some 'production overuns' I bet they happen. Things like capsules. They'd go on the test jig and a percentage would be in the out of spec bin - throw away, or sell them. I doubt there is an American rep watching the factory 24/7

@@pauljohnson4590 You are missing the big elephant in the room. The big give away is you and others clearly demonstrate in your videos knock off copy cat versions are physically different from legitimate products in several salient respects, proving they are close, but not exact copies. If cheap copies contained OEM parts, those parts would "surely" look like original parts because they would actually be original parts. But the fake products are clearly physically different - the handles are different size, shape, color, thickness, with different markings from real OEM or legitimate handles. Fake grilles are also different size, color, shape, from legitimate parts. Rejected microphones and parts, and OEM parts, would all look exactly like legitimate microphones and parts - they would not bear these obvious differences. Moreover, shipping boxes and packaging all bear obvious differences from legit products - so they are NOT OEM parts or SHURE factory rejects. These differences clearly belie any notion they are factory rejects or comprised of OEM parts. They are clearly fakes made from fake parts. Happy trails. All in good fun. "Take Courage" old man!! JHT

Yes - totally agree. I tried opening the range up and was quite disappointed by the performance - but here there is very little in the 'extra' bands anyway.

I was really hoping it would receive on the 800mhz band as there are a few conv 800 freqs I listen to regularly that the Wouxun UV9D hears loud and clear. So thank you, I appreciate your comment and I'll give this radio a skip.

Neat - although we don't have access to those bands here - full of celllular!

​@@pauljohnson4590lixo 😂😂😂😂😂

That is what I thought. I cannot see why people seem to hate this radio - one review said a pile of garbage? I'm rather the other way - it is a bit strange looking but that is fine for me.