Similarly can't say anything regarding Peluso but can attest that Dan is a well renowned artist, educator, gear enthusiast and builder, etc... Was briefly a student in the Bluegrass program he is over at ETSU, he is top notch at what he does and a nice guy to boot.
I didn't realize Peluso was only a couple hours away, cool to know that operation is so close by.
Reading again what
@BluegrassDan wrote in the original reply i can see that Pelusos as a family are great people, neighbors, and they re-skin chinese backplates.
I can't dispute that, and i'm not even trying to. I am saying that Peluso, as a company, sells microphones that are advertised as one thing, but you end up with something else.
As someone who works with capsules, for the 1000th time i beg people of this forum to understand that reskinning capsules doesn't change much about it's voicing, if anything it makes things worse due to lack of clean room, expertise and tons of other stuff. It also doesn't change the price of the capsule from 20$ to 200$.
Just saw the interview at JP workshop, and the measurement setup they use. Needless to say i'm shocked. But i don't expect anyone here to understand why. Just like with capsules, he has no idea what he's doing. Unless it's selling koolaid, which seems to work.
I don't know who is behind this business model, but if you advertise something, that is what you should sell. In many cases, what is advertised on Peluso site is not what you get. Which is the point of my first reply in this thread.
I don't doubt John is a great guy to have a beer with, it's just that i wouldn't suggest buying anything of the site with his family name. Whom ever owns it, or writes the bollocks on their site.
Would you rather have an independent, non biased forum contributor reporting on various product with images, measurements, facts? Or bunch of neighbors praising each other's moonshine?
This is not necessarily towards you
@SubSpec , just trying to sort between apples and oranges. Thanks for clearing up Dan is a straight up guy.
Then i am thinking how many great people are actually vouching for such businesses, knowing owners personaly, only for those companies to abuse the trust and sell crap to people like me, or my friends whom own the mics sent to me.
Videos from a user on GS, reporting on issues with diaphragms, again bought through a dealer>
The thread ended by bunch of people attacking the OP, and saying Peluso is a great guy, and there's no way this could have happened. So all of us reporting the issues throughout the years are just mean haters?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark