ORIGINAL: DrMotor
ORIGINAL: Jeff Worsham
Here's my objective evidence: I bought a cheapo motor to try, it was noisy and sounded like crap. Sounded like it was made with cheap bearings. I hated it. Later tried a cheapo ESC (one of your other favorite topics) and it was DOA.
Jeff: Which motor, which ESC ..? I am interested, out of curiosity.
It was one of the smaller Emax motors and the ESC was a "HURC," I forget what size but it was small too- 18A I think. This was a reletively cheap lesson which I applied when it came time to buy parts for larger airframes. So far it's paid off for me.