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the other design fault is that if you drop the unit, the battery can pop out. Easy when you know - but annoying when you are under the pressures of the gig and you are faced with the problem for the first time. Even more annoying when you find out that the wearer dropped it and didn’t tell you. Especially annoying when the battery was fresh in and the unit was confirmed as working by me. ”it just stopped working” ”nothing to do with you dropping it then?” Anyway, nothing a bit of knowledge or gaffa can’t fix.

So, who is going to own up to creating the fake OC-2 profile, claiming to be Marcus?

Love posts like those. "Shop delivers on goods that have been paid for shocker!"

* looks in other direction, specifically avoiding eye contact with Beedster *

Supplying Shure PSM200 IEMs deserves a firing.

Given their speed at delivering the new site, I wouldn’t be holding any breaths. That site is done and dusted for the next 10+ years.

Another annoyance. I click on to a product (via the text, not via a pic) Look at that big pic in the middle. Lets click on it (seems reasonable, but maybe not because it wouldn't allow me to click on the images in the listings... but hey)... Woah! That's great that. I want to see more. Oh, the cursor keys dont seem to do anything... and there's no arrows on the pic to scroll. Oh you're kidding me... Click out.... look at the pics underneath... and... oh look! same picture but now I can scroll through the rest of the images. Why not give me the scroll option on the main (and first pic) that I clicked on. I don't want to back out of an action I have done to scroll through some pics. PS, I know this isn't BDs fault, it just shows how devs don't understand how user experience/expectations (especially for consistency - do you want me to click on pictures or not?) are often at odds with the spec

Agreed - I'm sure there's a popular website that we know of that does such a thing. Its name currently escapes me.

Anyway, not going to go into any more Amazon talk, I was simply referencing their UI, not their tax status and shouldn't be derailing the thread. Plus, its verging on politics anyway. So, I'm self moderating and done on that particular aspect of the convo! (And @ped is watching)

The don't - but the threat is enough to secure them what they want. If there is the choice of paying out, or not paying out, which do you think Bezos would want to go with? For a different take on the situ, why aren't you annoyed that Amazon are receiving tax credits? (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/15/amazon-could-avoid-uk-tax-for-two-more-years-thanks-to-rishi-sunaks-tax-break)

Drill mod?

When you figure out how much companies rely on the revenue generated via Amazon, they have the government over a barrel. "We leave the UK and all the dependants go bust/lose business and pay no/less tax... or you let us carry on." All the linked dependant tax revenue would be a catastrophic loss to the public coffers. Couriers/packaging manufactures/folks selling through amazon/affiliate earners/digital media owners where the distribution is through Amazon/staff/warehousing costs etc.... the impact of Amazon pulling out of the UK would be MASSIVE. (Doesn't make it right though)

Use a third party analyser to see how BD reports its responsiveness. Spoiler - there's a lot of bloatware in the BD site, although whoever built it is probably not even aware or maybe not savvy enough around such things. Its not been coded, it's been assembled using COTS products that have been shoehorned together.

Do they not fit due them being too loose - or because the tip wont actually attach to the output tube?

This is not true if the product is not exclusive. People will buy the product - but not necessarily from BD. Website responsiveness and minimal click through is a massive influencer. If you want to buy something and you can click to buy in three clicks (e.g. integrated checkout with ApplePay, Googlepay, PayPal without being nagged for details all the time - you are onto a winner. You only have to look at the speed at which you can do a quick checkout on Amazon to understand why this is a massive part of the UI and can influence the user to chose them as a store as opposed to anywhere else. The "Buy Now" button in Amazon is a great example of this - why would the user want to go anywhere else when it is so easy and negates the traditional checkout experience. Appreciate, as good get more specialised and if the price becomes significantly different, this those attributes becomes a factor in accepting more laborious experiences). As someone who has done a fair but of UI analysis for some government websites (which I know are mostly pap), responsiveness is a massive part of it. There's loads of money spent on active monitoring using real users as opposed to doing offline testing. You can see where people are bailing out and how they are attempting to use the system - because they may be exhibiting behaviours that were never accounted for at design time. Anyway, dont want to derail the thread will all that kinda talk. Anyway... as a quick example of UI annoyance, it's annoying to me (and surely to others), that I cant navigate BD site and drill down into an item by clicking on the picture. In conjunction with the text, that would offer a larger click point and cater for both sets of people who want to navigate pictorially or via text link. I know BD have probably just bought this as a COTS e-commerce product, probably based on price (or maybe even being free) so it may not even be a configurable. Again, just a musing.

It was always going to be the case given the build up! For me, Im not mad keen on the layout (I thought the last site was quite good to navigate, just looked gash and some of the copy was sloppy - that's why I find the cut and copy without the links frustrating. Ultimately, it's of no real concern to me though, just things like that comes across as a bit sloppy, thats all... I like attention to the details, especially if it's reflected in the way the business in question operates)

Punters aren't experts. But at the end of the day, they are the people you've got to please in terms of experience. So in this case, their opinions may count more (or at least as much as) the experts. Experts aren't the target buyers, the punters are.

OK, first observation - Privacy policy been cut and copied... and they forgot to put the links in.

Sound thinking... but it's not in Azure.

nope. its woocommerce in wordpress.... ...which makes me question... why did that take so long?

This is the page I find most useful - https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/about-us/our-brands/

Volume is not measured in watts... thats the hard sell.

Showaddywaddy.

Re: low end. My very high level take on subs for low end - Smaller subs - mostly useless for anything at volume. Nice enough for an acoustic act to give an acoustic guitar some really low end presence. Medium sized subs - take away energy sapping low end loads on tops to enable them to work better. Dont really add much thump - just gives you more headroom and control (especially if you are hpf your tops and using via aux fed sub method) Big sized subs - more about the feel. If people people are pushing too much lows in smaller venues especially, it because very thick and uncomfortable. If you want that pro gig/club feel - this is where you're at.

Gaffa taped over your ears. Job done. You may think I'm joking... but it's been done on one of my gigs!