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Originally Posted by alanworland
Just been and purchased the Labgear unit which looks well made, 2 year guarantee and 15dB of gain.
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The Labgear brand is one that the trade used to know and trust. They decided that to enhance profits, they would sell into B&Q at prices that meant that their retail was below normal trade price. Result was that the trade stopped buying and Labgear bit the dust.
One of the worst brands, even worse than Maxview is Philex. Many people realised that this was the case and went elsewhere. So then Philex bought the Labgear brand name and started passing their "budget" goods off as quality trade class items.
An FM aerial does not need a distribution amplifier unless you are trying to resolve signals down in the noise. On any decent aerial installation, 3.5dB loss from an inductive splitter will never be noticed. If it is, then the aerial system needs sorting.