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Correction on my post about the Fosi amplifiers!

AudioAvarice said:
Did you see the pdf I posed of the KY series, there isn't a 2200uf 63v cap listed in it.
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I have ordered Nichicon caps from Digi-key in the last couple months that did not appear on the manufacturer's data sheet for that series of parts. Manufacturers change their product lineups all the time. The documentation doesn't necessarily get updated or distributed at the time the lineup changes.

Sometimes the simple explanation is the correct one.
 
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Plus it satisfies the widespread need to find the "real truth". Kind of like what fuels Q'anon.

I'll send an inquiry to Chemi-con tomorrow as regards whether or not that value ever existed in the KY series.

It's been many years since I was a product manager in the electronics industry, and I'm sure much has changed, but for large accounts - those buying quantities in the tens and hundreds of thousands - component manufacturers would extend (add to) their product lines with products available only to single accounts, or small groups of accounts. These products would not be GA.

Has anyone sent a request to Fosi asking them to explain?

Or is it more fun to just speculate and turn a suspicion into a fact via the interweb?

EDIT - To be clear, I think there is a better than small chance that those in the pics are counterfeits. I just hate to see conclusions made without at least trying to fully run the issue to ground. On a related note, and showing my ignorance, why would they use AI-generated pics instead of actual prduct pics?? And, if the goal is subterfuge, why wouldn't they "doctor" the pic to show only parts that appear on real data sheets?
 
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spark1 said:
You know this to be a fact?
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Maybe not, but neither do we know the opposite to be a fact. So, until we get solid proof for one or the other, all we can do is speculate and consider probabilities.
When coming from a country and culture that's widely known for unashamedly counterfeiting everything it can, the onus is on them to prove they're the exception, not on us to prove they're not. Fake images generated by AI are not a good way to convince us; quite the contrary.

spark1 said:
Or is it more fun to just speculate and turn a suspicion into a fact via the interweb?
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Of course it is. Isn't this what the internet is for? :biggrin:
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spark1 said:
On a related note, and showing my ignorance, why would they use AI-generated pics instead of actual prduct pics?? And, if the goal is subterfuge, why wouldn't they "doctor" the pic to show only parts that appear on real data sheets?
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Personally, I don't think the goal is subterfuge. I think they did it just because it was easier and cheaper than hiring a professional photographer. And maybe they also thought that some juicy, pixel-perfect images would look more appealing to us. Kind of like an amateur photographer who abuses the sharpness and saturation sliders in Photoshop to make his otherwise bland photos more attractive, not realizing that most educated viewers can spot such a crude trick from a mile away.

But still, even if we admit that they aren't actually trying to conceal anything disingenuous, this still shows how little respect they have for us and for our intelligence. How gullible do they think we are, if they expect us to be fooled by some obviously fake images? This alone would make me want to avoid them unless I had a compelling reason not to.
 
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Vlad Soare said:
But still, even if we admit that they aren't actually trying to conceal anything disingenuous, this still shows how little respect they have for us and for our intelligence. How gullible do they think we are, if they expect us to be fooled by some obviously fake images?
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Who are "we" and "us"? Leave me out...

You're starting to sound like Tom Waits in "What's He Building"
 
I suspect that the obsession that some of you have with AI and Fosi being disingenuous is a bit of a red herring. It could be nothing more than a 3d render from whatever design software they use and they opted to use that in their marketing, rather than set it up own an in-house photo booth or farm it out to an agency. While I won't rule it out entirely, it seems to me that using generative AI is using a few more steps than is necessary when a screen shot of a digital render is the obvious, lazy way out for the marketing team. I'm not suggesting the the suspicion of and aversion to AI is unwarranted, but there's a simpler answer here, speaking as someone who spent the better part of a decade working in marketing and design.
 
Vlad Soare said:
Maybe not, but neither do we know the opposite to be a fact. So, until we get solid proof for one or the other, all we can do is speculate and consider probabilities.
When coming from a country and culture that's widely known for unashamedly counterfeiting everything it can, the onus is on them to prove they're the exception, not on us to prove they're not. Fake images generated by AI are not a good way to convince us; quite the contrary.


Of course it is. Isn't this what the internet is for? :biggrin:
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Blocked .
 
Gigantic said:
I suspect that the obsession that some of you have with AI and Fosi being disingenuous is a bit of a red herring. It could be nothing more than a 3d render from whatever design software they use and they opted to use that in their marketing, rather than set it up own an in-house photo booth or farm it out to an agency. While I won't rule it out entirely, it seems to me that using generative AI is using a few more steps than is necessary when a screen shot of a digital render is the obvious, lazy way out for the marketing team. I'm not suggesting the the suspicion of and aversion to AI is unwarranted, but there's a simpler answer here, speaking as someone who spent the better part of a decade working in marketing and design.
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Obsession?
 
BmWr75 said:
“Never has so much, been said about so little, for so long.” Said by a friend to somebody going on and on about hand warmers.
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Oh, I don't know....your thread about the speakers you ordered comes to mind. :thumbsup:
 
I've got two Fosi V3 stereo units and have yet to open them -or most of my other gear for that matter- and I'm happy with them no matter what components may or may not be installed.
 
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