This is a review of problems I had after purchasing Item 180824673401 a Takstar WPM 100 In Ear Monitor. It was a Receiving Unit and Sending Unit package deal for $61.99. It came with connecting cables, a 220 volt PSU. Ebay Vendor did not mention that ANYWHERE on Ebay sale site. It is a 220 volt, 12volt DC, 300 mamp power supply, and a brief 6 page instructional manual of about 3 pages written in Chinese and 3 pages in English. It arrived from a Chinese Ebay Vendor on March 17 2012 and I tried it out March 18th and 19th. It is operating in the 432 to 434 MHz UHF range and is supposed to work for up to 30 meters range. Receiver operates with 2 AA batteries, has on and off volume switch and knob for fine tuning UHF send/receive between 432 and 434. There is no mono stereo switch but it has a red on light on the send and receive units.
The reason for my review is I could find ZERO reviews on this product. I purchased it and took a chance and lost as the unit I received is completely unusable for music groups, singers, musicians. So I am warning you, since there are no reviews out there yet. The Takstar WPM 100 I received had far too much static, white background noise, signal loss and searching with loud annoying pops, in and out ghost sounds. This unit would not be usable for any kind of performance. I am a bit of a gear nut, I have tried out units from Nady, Sennheiser, Shure, AKG and Carver. They all have their pros and cons, Nady is the one with the most hiss and noise in the past but also the cheapest. I was hoping Takstar would beat Nady with price and sound quality. Yes, it beats Nady by price. Yet it makes Nady look good in terms of sound quality! It made Nady seem quiet in comparison! Takstar was far too noisy and distorted. I mean there is NO WAY you are going to use this unit I purchased on stage...at least not the one I got in the box. It is more like a toy walkie talkie radio in sound quality, and you are not going to like singing or playing with it.
There is the possibility I got a defective unit. To test this theory, I e-mailed five other people on Ebay who purchased this same exact unit within the last month. BTW, I do not blame the vendor for anything except not listing this has a 220 volt power supply. And the Chinese ebay vendor is only repeating the company sales pitch of everyone selling this unit. I got answers from four of the five ebay purchasers within a day. Three of them said their units were very noisy, and that the vendor had told them to try changing cords and try different power supplies, and/or turn up the music louder to drown out any hiss. Only one of four who answered, said his unit worked perfectly and was quiet enough to satisfy him. If 3 out of 4 people say their units are too noisy and unusable, that is a 75 percent fail rate! Sure enough, when I reported the problem to my vendor, they said to change the cords and PSU and turn up the music louder to drown out any hiss. I am afraid that will not work with the unit they sold me. It will create a massive headache and will be intolerable. If you add me to the statistics, that four out of five unusable units in a month.
Wish someone had written a review that I could have read, before I purchased this defective product. So I am writing this for you if you are researching this as a potential great deal. Maybe it's a fluke and I got a bad one, and several others got a bad run from the factory or a vendor. Maybe there is a power supply problem. But I have voltage converters. They should fix that and be up front with us as to PSU. Not selling us a product and then asking us to go buy or try out different PSU.
Until I see and hear a good working one, I can only report my experience has been bad with this unit. I have been to China and Asia three times, and I am not afraid to buy Asian products. But I admit, I have been burned several times with cheap knockoffs that were defective or very subpar in performance. I own voltage converters. I own numerous items purchased on Ebay from China and other parts of the world, and I have nearly 500 purchases with 100 percent positive feedback. I am a nice guy and hate to say anything negative. But I worry that others will be disappointed as I was with this purchase. And it is very very slow and hard to return something to China purchased from a Chinese company. You will have communication problems and it take forever to get a replacement part or your money back. That is if you ever get your money back. If you want to take a chance that you will get one of the good working units, and if you are stubborn and the incredibly low price lures you (as it did me) then here is a review for you to read and reconsider. As for me, today I gave up on the Takstar WPM-100 and ordered the Galaxy AS-9004 unit. That is a 4 receiver unit that gets many excellent reviews on the internet.
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