E&T spider rack knock offs - how bad are they?

Hm. They must be REALLY bad...!

Are you sure that FE was the one manufacturing these? Looks more like"The Rack of Silence" or whatever it was called by that Scandinavian company. All of FEs that I have seen had maple shelves. In fact I remember a test by a European site of FE vs a Spider Rack of some type.

stanwall, see link below:
http://www.finite-elemente.de/en/racks/discontinued_models/spider
i'm assuming FE was the originator of the design, but that point is secondary to finding these racks in the US, which is what I'd really like to do. shipping one of the E&T racks from China will cost about $200.
FE has a distributer in Denver supposedly, Blunote, but i haven't been there yet.
Also see this interesting link comparing the FE product with the Chinese version:
http://www.hifi-advice.com/Finite-Spider-vs-Fake-Spider-review.html
Thanks.

Thanks.

Just looked up the rack of silence and it looks incredible Btw, more high-end quality than FE's product, at first glance, very nice...