[sdiy] ALPS components durability?

[karl dalen]

Anyone with real life experience of ALPS components?

Particularely their potentiometers such as RK09D and K series?
Alps states that these can be used for musical instruments,
specs states durability of 5000 cycles!!! 

Thats horrible bad figures,i did a qick test, in 15 sec i
turned 52 cycles thats 208 for a minute and stagering
12480 cycles for an hour!!! (if i could keep the speed up).
This is baader then a ordinary chinese made trim pot!!

Anyhow, ALPS want 0,75 euro each for this
potentiometer, i call that fraudalent behaviour!

I also noticed that their joystics melted during soldering!!

Im pussled, ALPS used to be good!  

REG
KD