Emperion_Mik
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Hi there,
i am Michele, one of the guys at Emperion,
i have been pointed here from a person that i know, i haven't gone through the whole fifteen pages because forums are something that i never really liked.
Anyway, i would like to clarify some points since it seems to that there are too much speculations and not real facts.
So to be much more synthetic and clear as possible:
1) Emperion guitars are made in China
FALSE.
We used to do prototyping with Aram Music (which is, by they way, a South Korean company) as prototyping can be the most expensive part in producing an instrument.
Only two models (ZX and ZV) were made at Aram and were sold at a very low grade instrument price.
I can't say much more on this since there is a legal action involved with ARAM by using our projects for their own website and other (worst) things they made.
2) Final models are different than the specs provided
Partially TRUE. I am dealing with the person responsible for this and of course errors will be corrected in the future. The differences, however, are only on the aestethic side and the whole "fret access" story is just too much exaggerated.
It is TRUE that is different than the mockup but it is absolutely NOT "unplayable" as someone said, those are judgements based on speculations on pics made "on the fly" just to show up the guitars to most unpatient customers (e.g. the Norax Red Flame has both flame mape on top and headstock but the pic was take on very strong direct sunlight with a not top of the market camera, hence this can be misleading).
For your reference we used AAA grade alder on the Norax and AA grade flame maple top on the Red flame and Green flame Norax(s)
A customer even made tests with chemical reagents on the woods and contacted us that he was very satisfied on the wood quality, quoting him he said "that's the same alder that there is on the Jackson PRO series".
People who had already the chance to try those instruments has given us entusiast opinions and feedback.
We will provide better pics and videos in the next weeks of course that may help to calm this kind of paranoia.
This being said we're fully aware and we won't decline our responsibilities, this means that if we will process every refund request we may receive if anybody will be unhappy with the instrument. Luckily on a more than couple hundred pre-orders received and being processed and shipped these days we got no more than 6-8 refund requests.
I am sorry but i won't have much spare time to keep on reading the thread so if anyone wants to ask anything or have more clarification can contact us via email.
Best regards
Michele
i am Michele, one of the guys at Emperion,
i have been pointed here from a person that i know, i haven't gone through the whole fifteen pages because forums are something that i never really liked.
Anyway, i would like to clarify some points since it seems to that there are too much speculations and not real facts.
So to be much more synthetic and clear as possible:
1) Emperion guitars are made in China
FALSE.
We used to do prototyping with Aram Music (which is, by they way, a South Korean company) as prototyping can be the most expensive part in producing an instrument.
Only two models (ZX and ZV) were made at Aram and were sold at a very low grade instrument price.
I can't say much more on this since there is a legal action involved with ARAM by using our projects for their own website and other (worst) things they made.
2) Final models are different than the specs provided
Partially TRUE. I am dealing with the person responsible for this and of course errors will be corrected in the future. The differences, however, are only on the aestethic side and the whole "fret access" story is just too much exaggerated.
It is TRUE that is different than the mockup but it is absolutely NOT "unplayable" as someone said, those are judgements based on speculations on pics made "on the fly" just to show up the guitars to most unpatient customers (e.g. the Norax Red Flame has both flame mape on top and headstock but the pic was take on very strong direct sunlight with a not top of the market camera, hence this can be misleading).
For your reference we used AAA grade alder on the Norax and AA grade flame maple top on the Red flame and Green flame Norax(s)
A customer even made tests with chemical reagents on the woods and contacted us that he was very satisfied on the wood quality, quoting him he said "that's the same alder that there is on the Jackson PRO series".
People who had already the chance to try those instruments has given us entusiast opinions and feedback.
We will provide better pics and videos in the next weeks of course that may help to calm this kind of paranoia.
This being said we're fully aware and we won't decline our responsibilities, this means that if we will process every refund request we may receive if anybody will be unhappy with the instrument. Luckily on a more than couple hundred pre-orders received and being processed and shipped these days we got no more than 6-8 refund requests.
I am sorry but i won't have much spare time to keep on reading the thread so if anyone wants to ask anything or have more clarification can contact us via email.
Best regards
Michele