Electrocompaniet owners

Ernie, believe what you wish. You are personally involved in this endeavor. Plus you love your EC CDP. These two facts gives me pause to consider your perspective slanted. I am trying to look at this from a neutral perspective. BTW: Euro list of the player when the EMC-1 mk2 first came out was $2k US. I know this because I have a friend who got one over in Denmark when they first came out. Pause and consider that for a sec.

I have no animosity towards you, but if I had any EC gear, I would sell it in a heartbeat. I am glad that you got your situation resolved, but I think you crossed the line when you posted specific prices online. As much as I value that information, if it were me, I would have had a bit more discretion. Call me old fashioned, but if you noticed, when I have a beef with someone and I take it online, I do not name names. Proof of this can be seen on a thread I did a while back:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1036622016&openusid&zzTok20000&4&5#Tok20000

Anyway, Ernie, your posts here at Audiogon will have repercussions (some will be negative) for both yourself and EC. If you doubt this, just wait until the next upgrade comes out for the EC player. What will you do? Go to the distributor who you drug through the mud online? Go directly to EC again? You put yourself in a tough postition. But who knows? EC could really like you and give you the next upgrade for their cost as well... I do not know what will happen, but your posts here at Audiogon will effect transactions you will do in the future. This does not even cover the unlikely event you decide to sell your player.....

Anyway, I am done with this thread.

So good luck!

KF

Tok, Pee in the sandbox and run, eh? To state that I "drug" (sp) the distributor through the mud" is preposterous. Didn't you read what happened? The MkII NorthAmerican/Euro costs were $4000/$2300 just before the DAC was announced, then went to $5000/$2800-equivalent with the DAC announcement, and to $5500/$3200 with the "UP" grade, for info to all concerned. I repeat that EC chose to SELL me the parts for an upgrade, probably at normal spare parts markup. Why can't you see the facts here clearly, like apparently everyone else? I'd really appreciate it if you could rewind, review, and stop blaming the messenger.
Sigh....

Subaruguru as a member of Audiogon you owe us the truth and you delivered. Anything but and you would have been just like the companies that can't explain things or do not want you to look inside their stuff because you would find out just what we paid all the money for. Everything in the high end is pretty much a rip off or close to it and as members of the hobby we know that. I am glad EC at least did this for you. Tok has his own opinion and so be it. Ernie , you did the right thing. Amen!

Ernie, while I wish you the best of luck, my only concern is if the parts are up to spec. Most of us don't have the necessary equipment to test them.

There isn't the SLIGHTEST question in my mind that their service manager (Vigleif) would send me anything but the correct "UP"grade parts. There's no reason to question his veracity. So it's now up to me to be especially careful to ensure proper installation. Hence I'll hire the head tech at Audio Lab in Cambridge to install these tiny diodes and their new saddled caps. I suppose he could check the diode function and cap "charge curve" (or whatever) beforehand, just in case. I'll try to start a thread to report findings to all (there over 800 views of the original "HELP Electro...." thread), as I do NOT want ECs reputation to be negaitively affected by the reporting of my unfortunate experience. G'night guys...and Judith.