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Comparing MAD buttons to Monitor buttons

Over the past five months, I have been noticing a nasty habit with New York City's attitude towards there lifts: they love to use Monitor buttons. A generous portion of America's lift enthusiasts hate Monitor buttons SO MUCH, NYC is therefore there least favorite city to film lifts & I am one of those lift enthusiasts.
Absolutely AWESOME MAD Lift Buttons in Secaucus which you CAN'T find in NYC easily

MAD

MAD is absolutely amazing, concave, convex or California. You name it! There is absolutely no modern day lift button currently in production that half nears as awesome as MAD. My favorites from MAD involve BS (the halo style circle button) & BP (the jewel style circle button). NYC surprisingly has a couple lifts with MAD buttons, however, the known ones are found in the World Trade Center, which makes the World Trade Center the most awesome modern building complex in NYC to film lifts after 2015, although you need permission to be escorted onto the office lifts.

On the bright side, the Holiday Inn Secaucus had Schindler replace there former Dover lifts & during the replacement, Schindler decided to use MAD BS Moon with the Julius mount. For generic lifts, Pittsburgh uses both MAD & Innovation by default.

My experience on the MAD BS lift

When I rode the new Schindler lift, I was absolutely impressed with the lift buttons so much that I just had to continue filming the lift, taking countless pictures of the buttons to send to my FRIRNDS. Unlike Monitor, MAD buttons are absolutely awesome & bring character to even the most boring looking lifts on the face of the planet. If you just look at pictures, you'd think the lifts are from MIAMI!

Monitor

Monitor buttons (aside from the absolutely unique-looking TR 1500 which NYC does not use enough of), look absolutely horrible & a generous portion of the U.S. lift community agrees with this statement. Putting these on the world's prettiest, most beautiful lift will take the beauty away from it in a snap. That's the easiest thing you could do to take all the character away from the lift. Don't get me wrong, in the picture the lifts use Monitor HPS 1300, but at least it's not the crap Monitor TR they put in the high rise buildings nearby!!! Monitor buttons are some of my LEAST favorite lift buttons available on the market today & there genericness & blandness play the biggest role.

Basically, in essence, the Monitor Series buttons (except for PC & TR 1500) have no character, are the most blandest lift buttons in the world & make any lift that much more boring.

This is the biggest reason NYC is my least favorite city to film lifts. In fact, what would make NYC better is if Monitor was prohibited from being contracted for lift buttons in NYC high rise buildings & instead, MAD or Innovation would be contracted by default.

My experience riding in a lift with these buttons

On the traction lifts, I was BORED AS HECK when I rode the lifts with these buttons due to there blandess. Also, NYC uses there own generic style VF logic, which made it even more boring to ride. The hydraulic ones were only a little bit more fun to ride, but the buttons took away almost all of the character.

The conclusion

MAD buttons should be used more often in NYC. If NYC completely switched from Monitor to MAD, then I would consider making them one of the best U.S. cities to film lifts. But for now, while they still use Monitor, they will stay as the number 1 least interesting Western Hemisphere city to film lifts!
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