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It is ridiculously easy for a Kiwi to work in Australia (or for an Aussie to work in NZ). Essentially when it comes to getting employed, a NZer is identical to an Australian when it comes to our right to work. Of course an Australian Citzen and NZ Citizen are still two different things, even if living in Australia then I still can't vote for MPs to represent me in the Australian Parliament, or if I lost my job in Australia then I can't go on the dole in Australia. Just to give a couple of examples.

Now that Lectrosonics is technically kinda-ish sort of "an Australian company" I was hoping beyond all hope to see engineering positions listed in Australia 😞 Ah well, I can't work in America! But I could in Oz.

Well, I think we're only a few short years away from the patent finally expiring? But now that Lectrosonics is "an Australian company", I think (note: am not a lawyer, I only LARP as one on the internet) there is a pathway they could start doing this immediately if they wish? Because if they choose to then they could do all their manufacturing in Australia for their non-American sales (while keeping production in America for American sales), thus completely avoiding the American legal system and their onerous requirements? Because none of the manufacturing or sales would be done in the USA for their non-USA sales.

This is a worthwhile watch, an interview with the new owner of Lectro:

Something like a "Lectrosonics LMc"? (a LMb that's priced sub $1K) Maybe doing what @Jim Feeley suggested and releasing it under "the Blue range" like the IFBlue is (so call it a "LMblue"??), if they want to preserve "the Lectrosonics brand name" for transmitters that are exclusively $1K+

My initial knee jerk reaction was "this is bad news", but once I thought about it for a few more seconds I can see the potential silver lining here. Lectrosonics was #1 King for so long during the Analog and Digital Hybrid eras, but it feels like over the past decade they've been slipping behind vs the rising stiff competition from Wisycom, Shure, and others. (I'm a very big fan of all of the analog / digital hybrid wireless I own from Lectrosonics, but if/when I upgrade, I struggle to see myself sticking with and going next with Lectrosonics?) Perhaps this now is exactly what they need? Being able to tap into a huge amount of extra resources of engineering talent, manufacturing capabilities, new supply chain efficiencies, extra deep funding, and more. Am excited to see play out what this will mean for the future of Lectrosonics.

Ah yes, I was an idiot, misread that & replied too quickly, my apologies.

if the CSM1/MKH416/etc are within your budget, then surely the DPA 2017 is also within your budget! It's basically the same price. Were you getting it mixed up with the much more expensive 4017?

If Atomos is caring about the goodwill with the Aaton brand name, then that would indicate they plan upon releasing future products under the Aaton brand. And that's surely the only reason they're doing their current actions, to maintain and build up the goodwill in the Aaton brand name?

Definitely not worth it. It's easy enough these days to find ancient Lectrosonics non-diversity wireless that is matching frequencies for a hundred-ish bucks. So why take the risk? That's what I was thinking as well. Sony prosumer wireless that is a generation or two (or three...) old is often under a couple of hundred dollars these days, sometimes even under a hundred bucks. Just doesn't make sense to me to buy non-matching ancient Lectros on the hope that maybe "somehow" it will "work".

Hopefully this is just their first go at attempting to get low hanging fruit before taking on a more challenging project such as a Superslot receiver.

You make a fair point, but we are also linking back to him as well, I'm sure he's getting far more views (well, relatively speaking for the size of this forum) thanks to this thread being active and discussing it vs if it didn't exist. It's also helpful to share the data further, should their channel ever go offline in the years to come. (unlikely but never impossible)

Another benefit of testing all of them is not just for what you said about where "name brand" battteries might be available, but also: 1) it might discover a new top performer that we've been overlooking, one that could become the "brand name" that everyone then trusts and recommends 2) it can help confirm that the "community wisdom" of whatever is "the best" is indeed that 3) when it's repeated again and again over the long term (he did the same tests 6yrs ago as well) then it can be check on if changes have happened, what if a battery manufacturer makes a big change to their batteries to cut down costs but doesn't alert us to it, yet it impacts battery performance by 9%? Unless you go and test the batteries, you might not catch this. If people want to save themselves from watching a 20 minute video, here is some of the key data from it: HELL YEAH!!

Does it have to be an analog mixer? The Yamaha DM3-D appears to be getting popular with some location sound people who want a smaller format console that's also DC powered.

Wait, how old is the Sonosax M2D2? I thought it is only a handful of years old. Didn't realize it was older than Zaxcom's dual gain recorders. If so, then how come Sonosax couldn't sell their dual gain SX-R4+ in the USA??