echoplex > thanks!

[Serge Devadder <serge.devadder@planetinternet.be>]

Many thanks to all the loopers and to Dino @ Gibson for clearing the 
situation on the Echoplex in Europe. 

I think it's great (actually necessary) that authorities protect the 
customers by issuing strict security regulations on electric devices. But 
the CE-approval is blocking many unique or rare instruments from entering 
the European market. I guess the US and Japan do the same with our 
European stuff. I work for a large chemical corporation and we often have 
problems supplying scientific equipment to European researchers in 
academia & industry because of this CE-label bs... It's easy to regain the 
cost of CE-approval if you sell 10.000 fridges or TV-sets; but for a 
couple of hundred FX-boxes, hmmm...

Anyway, I whish Oberheim good luck, and I will be among their first EDP 
European customers. I would just suggest that Dino drops a post to the 
LoopersDelight-list when the Echoplex becomes available overhere, and will 
also tell us who distributes it in each European country. Hopefully his 
post will come in september!

bye,

Serge Devadder.