YES! ...and that is exactly why Subway has the most locations in the country out of any restaurant out there, and McDonalds serves more patrons than any other restaurant out there. You buy cheap stuff, you will realize it sucks, and never come back because the quality of the product is poor! This is why there are long waits in order to eat at Ruth Chris, Flemings Steak House, and Mortons, and Bonefish Grill every day of the week. Which high end restaurant did you eat at today Macho? I went to Mcdonalds once YEARS AGO...then I realized it was poor quality, and never went back
Top of the line quality, and paying a premium for something trumps the cheap stuff...Wait...Wait a minute?
by this logic, wouldn't have Mcdonalds and Subway failed a long time ago? You can get better quality food/product almost any where else!
What is more important is seeing the value in a product line/level and making the decision as to what product best fits best in the application you are going to be using it in.
High End Martin Moving Heads don't serve the same purpose as Chauvet or ADJ. And off market low priced non brand name lighting may or may not serve the same purpose for the desired application as well.
Someone who is totally into Martin products, and think anything less priced is cheap crap is welcome to their own opinion. However, to others ADJ, and Chauvet put fourth a premium, very nice lighting product. To some, the Chinese non name brand lighting might be "the same exact thing as Chauvet or ADJ without the name" ....and believe those cheaper low end fixtures to deliver the same or similar result, and may refuse to spend the $$$ on ADJ or Chauvet, or Blizzard, or Eternal Lighting etc. In the end, it depends on how one looks at it all, and what does the individual want the lights to accomplish for them.
...I'm not going with the Chinese fixtures, but I do believe those that call ADJ or Chauvet cheap, inferior, low level products weak sauce, and not worth using as Mobile DJs are in the wrong when it comes to Mobile DJ world. I would see spending thousands on high end martin moving heads useless, and foolish as a DJ.
If I were a concert production sound stage/lighting company, or a big Dance Club Owner, I might see it differently. To say you need Martin Moving heads to put on a high end mitzvah, sweet 16, divorce party...whatever the private event, in a ordinary hotel ball room, venue etc. is foolish in my book as well.