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I'd say they are pretty good - it's all much of a muchness now with the biggest driver away from 'other peoples bells on someone elses controls' being wireless boxes that are tied into the system manufacturer. Risco are an example of a manufacturer whos boxes are often still used by those that wouldn't touch their actual alarm kit in years, but these days you still have Pyronix, Texecom, Eaton have just launched a unified Wired and Wireless design exclusive to them, after re-selling the Quartz for years as their wired bell, an in house item for wireless). Even Orisec seem to be doing their own bell. Honeywell are still knocking them out but don't offer any kind of colour range nor screenprinting, they really are targeted for DIY / sparky special / builders jobs. I use the Quartz as it's well made, has been recently updated for LED strobe and other improvements, and even though it was never very popular absolutely no-one else round here uses them any more; certainly in the South West (OCS, Ambit and another facilities co. whose name I forget were the biggest, both have moved on) As far as I know, ADT are the last ones with their own genuinely exclusive bellbox, and even they don't seem to use it on every job any more. Chubb now use the Initial bell, which AFAIK isn't really an exclusive as such, it's just that Aritech won't sell it to anyone else in the UK (but it's widely available elsewhere). A bit like the last ever Chubb triangle box was available in plain red elsewhere in the EU, other than the UK. All the rest - even the mightly Abel, have drifted to Pyronix lightboxes. It's a bland world out there