RE: echoplex > thanks!

[Dino Cattaneo <DCattane@gibson.com>]

Thanks for the message.  Believe me, we can't wait to get the Echoplex
to Europe, and as soon as it's available we will let you all know.

Dino

-----Original Message-----
From: Serge Devadder [mailto:serge.devadder@planetinternet.be]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 5:08 PM
To: 'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'
Cc: 'DCattane@gibson.com'
Subject: echoplex > thanks!


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.