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<blockquote data-quote="skullmask" data-source="post: 1450162" data-attributes="member: 18968">It&#039;s hard to tell what&#039;s good and bad anymore unless you open something and look it over. And even then you have to know what you&#039;re looking for. I bought a small dual RTL-SDR box for use as a radio scanner. When I opened it up, well, it looked like something you&#039;d put together with a 5 dollar radio shack soldering iron and NO flux paste. The quality of the USB Y cable connected to the two receivers in the case was especially bad, with intermittent contacts causing the computer to drop the connection if you so much as sneezed at it. You&#039;d have been better off just buying two RTL-SDR&#039;s and hooking them up to a USB hub.It takes a lot of research to find good quality products. It doesn&#039;t help that we have so many options these days, so quality tends to get lost in the sea of mediocrity. I find it easier to focus on the big ticket items and just do my best with the small stuff. Another thing I found is that buying things individually rather than in sets seems to yield better results. If you buy a knife set the big chef&#039;s knife included with it will probably disappoint. However, if you buy just a chef&#039;s knife, even an inexpensive one will be of better quality. I do the same with all my cookware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skullmask, post: 1450162, member: 18968"] It's hard to tell what's good and bad anymore unless you open something and look it over. And even then you have to know what you're looking for. I bought a small dual RTL-SDR box for use as a radio scanner. When I opened it up, well, it looked like something you'd put together with a 5 dollar radio shack soldering iron and NO flux paste. The quality of the USB Y cable connected to the two receivers in the case was especially bad, with intermittent contacts causing the computer to drop the connection if you so much as sneezed at it. You'd have been better off just buying two RTL-SDR's and hooking them up to a USB hub. It takes a lot of research to find good quality products. It doesn't help that we have so many options these days, so quality tends to get lost in the sea of mediocrity. I find it easier to focus on the big ticket items and just do my best with the small stuff. Another thing I found is that buying things individually rather than in sets seems to yield better results. If you buy a knife set the big chef's knife included with it will probably disappoint. However, if you buy just a chef's knife, even an inexpensive one will be of better quality. I do the same with all my cookware. [/QUOTE]

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