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Originally Posted by soundlight
I bench focused, cleaned and torqued the mega clamps of about a hundred of them this week.
They are most certainly modern. Not a Source Four and lacking in a few respects, but most certainly still modern. Get a field that flat and bright with a 575 in an 8x13, and I will be very, very surprised.
(I also bench focused a number of Century-Strand 10x23s and 8x13s. Those are most certainly not modern.)
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I have to agree with you on this. The Altman Shakespeare is every bit as modern as a Source Four and can be a reliable and effective instrument.
I also don't buy in to the Shakespeare as being a knock-off. If you look at the two side by side, the Altman definitely has it's own unique design features. They spent some real time and money on this, which is more than I can say about the Lightronics one which is an actual knock-off. The Shakes does lack in some areas but they are for the most part trivial things. They both use dichroic technology, which some would say is copying ETC but come on, that's progress! Let's say "Drof Motor Co" was the first to use fuel injection. Then "Yvehc Motors" started using it on their cars. Would you say Yvehc copied Drof? I wouldn't. They're moving forward. One may have to pay another a fee to use their technology, but it's the best technology available so what else would you expect them to do?