Remember, NEC3500A is MIM, and A08 is MIC. If you "can" trust Chinese's QC, which I certain can't (all of the companies that I've worked for thus far, all have subsidiaries in China, and from all the QC issues that I've seen so far out of their China factories, have definitely changed my purchasing habits when it comes to MIC products Nowadays, I would only buy a MIC product if there isn't any other avaible option left ) To me buying MIC stuffs is just like what Tom Hanks said in "Forrest Gump", "Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get", and this can't be truer with MIC products... Therefore, my vote goes to NEC3500A