Warranty repair wait times - serious industry problem??


I'm looking at buying a used amplifier that needs some work, and lucky it's still under warranty. In researching places to get work done it's horrifying to learn that it could take two or three months after speaking to a few places.

Is this a widespread problem in the audio gear repair world? That's really bad.

emergingsoul

@facten  --  My thoughts, also.  Unless you are getting the steal deal of a lifetime, why would you buy an amp that's still under warranty (implying it's not that old) YET NEEDS service work already?  In the automotive world that's usually called a "lemon".

My recent experience with Cary repair was really excellent and rapid, quite the contrary to the above!
 

My Cary SLP05, which I bought used out of warranty, needed repair and the total turn around time, including shipping both ways, was about 3 weeks. Cary was GREAT, very professional, very responsive, very careful, with packaging of my preamp more carefully done than I have ever seen.

 I purchased a Schiit Freya+ in case my unit would be gone for months. I did get acquainted enough with the Freya to realize what a great product it is (helped by smoked glass Ken Rad VT231’s and CBS-Hytron 5692’s!), but the Cary service far exceeded what I expected.

The OP has still not identified a single audio component manufacturer with a two-month warranty repair time. So it looks like his claim is just BS.

Just had a C28 and a MC30 repaired by Audio Classics and in both cases it took 4 months. I know that’s vintage gear but I would expect the same with warranty items as well. Not enough techs and too much business I would assume. 

8 months get get back a  Rega Aphelion Cartridge. No one could give me a time frame for repair. I gave up and purchased a Hanna Red.