Oh no. This is deja vu all over again...
(Apologies in advance if posting a link to Audiokarma is frowned on, but The OPs experience is, weirdly, almost *exactly* the same as my own. Title of the thread: "Is five months a normal time to wait for tube amp restoration?")
http://bit.ly/2FTT3tw
(TLDR: My bone-stock Dynaco ST-70 blew up when it finally came in—after waiting almost six months and having to almost threaten them to get it back. They agreed to refund all of my payments, which have financed a trustworthy local tech who is undoing all of their extremely sub-par work. I listed all of our communications word-for-word in the thread. Images showing the shoddy work are on page 7 of the thread, including a video of smoke from the chassis after it arced...)
Get it back ASAP—Ken and his son Lloyd are apparently talented techs (at least one would assume so, what with AEA’s history—) but they are clearly not in a place in their lives where they can do good work in a timely fashion.
(Apologies in advance if posting a link to Audiokarma is frowned on, but The OPs experience is, weirdly, almost *exactly* the same as my own. Title of the thread: "Is five months a normal time to wait for tube amp restoration?")
http://bit.ly/2FTT3tw
(TLDR: My bone-stock Dynaco ST-70 blew up when it finally came in—after waiting almost six months and having to almost threaten them to get it back. They agreed to refund all of my payments, which have financed a trustworthy local tech who is undoing all of their extremely sub-par work. I listed all of our communications word-for-word in the thread. Images showing the shoddy work are on page 7 of the thread, including a video of smoke from the chassis after it arced...)
Get it back ASAP—Ken and his son Lloyd are apparently talented techs (at least one would assume so, what with AEA’s history—) but they are clearly not in a place in their lives where they can do good work in a timely fashion.