Uber expensive repair at United Radio

dasign

Thank You for the follow up.   Happy Listening!

Another +vote for Bill Thalmann for those close to Virginia.

Happy Listening!

Mmmm, did that include the price of the chipsets?  You paid full boat + mark-up....

Proper dis- & re-assembly, testing before & after, time spent discerning and ordering the proper replacements, blah blah....

Still seems a bit much, but...it's not my business to fix your bits.
Nice bits, bills the fits.

Skill & experience counts....your $, as it changes hands. ;)

I’m not in the US, but I have never found that good audio repair has to be expensive. It is amazing the services you can turn up with a little ’outside the box’ research.
I found a guy less than 10 miles from me who has thousands of hours experience, and works out of a workshop in his back garden. I have taken equipment of all sorts both valve and SS to him for repair, and have never been disappointed at the results or the price. So the right service at the right price is probably available somewhere near you, it’s probably just not well advertised so you haven’t found it. https://www.facebook.com/RussAudio-258730347512577
This is a job I had done recently at around £350 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4158294247556148&id=258730347512577
There is a modification that he did FOC that isn’t mentioned there, he also added a few components to elevate the heaters by 50 Volts.
This is another job I had done at around £450 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4009448215774086&id=258730347512577

imho, it’s poor form to play Monday morning quarterback when you failed to perform the necessary due diligence of getting a second opinion when you had doubts about the original estimated cost of repair.