My wife and I have gone on a couple of long drives for my audio passion. We went to Adirondack Audio in the Adirondack mountains in upstate NY. We also went to Audio Classics in Vestal NY. Both trips were around 300 miles each way. I have also been to both places alone a few times as well.
I remember when I sent a 100 pound Classe amp back to the factory in Canada, twice for cold solder joints on a brand new amp. I found Glenn Grue at Classe to be quite testy the second time it went back. He told me he lost money on my amp because it needed warranty repairs. He got even madder when I told him their QC must have been off the day my amp was built. I also told him if the techs let the amp run for a week after they fixed it, they would have found the additional cold solder joints. The amp was a $2999.00 Classe 15 amp. This was in 1998. Imagine what the amp would be priced at now.
Best of luck sending the amp out and back. I am sure it will be ok. I was without my system for 5 weeks when I had those problems and I was so moody! It was so bad, my wife told me to go out and buy a small system to tide me over. I did not take her up on that.
I remember when I sent a 100 pound Classe amp back to the factory in Canada, twice for cold solder joints on a brand new amp. I found Glenn Grue at Classe to be quite testy the second time it went back. He told me he lost money on my amp because it needed warranty repairs. He got even madder when I told him their QC must have been off the day my amp was built. I also told him if the techs let the amp run for a week after they fixed it, they would have found the additional cold solder joints. The amp was a $2999.00 Classe 15 amp. This was in 1998. Imagine what the amp would be priced at now.
Best of luck sending the amp out and back. I am sure it will be ok. I was without my system for 5 weeks when I had those problems and I was so moody! It was so bad, my wife told me to go out and buy a small system to tide me over. I did not take her up on that.