Where to find uni din protractor

I read this thread in its entirety with some trepidation since I use a SMARTractor for setups I do for customers and have exchanged quite a few emails with and have met Kevin Wolff of VANA Ltd., the US distributor of Acoustical Systems. In our interactions Kevin has demonstrated time and again he is a stand up guy and a true professional. I asked him about these serious allegations of fraud leveled at Dietrich, not only because anyone who knows me knows I am all about honesty and integrity but also because sometimes reality varies quite a bit from what may be posted online.

Some may recall that Michael Fremer wrote about Dietrich and the SMARTractor quite a while ago. The distributor learned of the allegations from Michael and found out from Dietrich that it was all about a person to whom he never delivered a tonearm and also never took money from. Apparently there were many changes and misunderstandings, from which a smear campaign started. You can see the latest of this campaign above, due to misunderstandings and passing of false rumors assumed to be true. And as we know, once it's out there on the Internet, it stays there.

Although I am not one of Kevin's dealers but may be at some point since I know for sure he's a good egg, an open book and the kind of person I want to do business with, I felt an obligation to set the record straight (pun intended). I respectfully ask all reading this to take my comments to heart and give Dietrich the benefit of the doubt. If you have further questions please feel free to contact Dietrich or Kevin.

Brian Walsh
Essential Audio

I have sympathy for anyone who was cheated out of thousands of dollars in any sort of "deal". However, I bought a first-generation UNItractor from Daniel. I paid him in advance, and he delivered on time and kept his promises as regards the number of templates to be provided, even after the purchase was completed. Further, the instrument itself is impeccably made and very well thought out, even to the fact that it can be used with 3 different spindle diameters. I am in no way qualified to discredit or impugn those who claim to have been cheated, but I thought it was at least fair to say that at least one customer is very satisfied.

Hi all, We may think that this is our forum .But I noticed that the so called 'moderators' not only can decide which contribution to allow and which to refuse but also which
alredy published contribution can be removed afterward.
Censorchip and arbitrariness go ususally hand in hand but the question is why should we accept this? In-shore contribution about'Who cares' is removed as well my post
'I rest my case'. My post about the difference between the 'human character' an 'human capabilities' is refused because, according to the moderators,this post is more
suitable for a private discussion(sic!) The moderators obviously pretend to know better than the members which contributions are right and which wrong. Among those who are censored for longer as two years the most are academic so the pretention to 'know better' is at least questionable. Since the new owners of Audigon started the situation is continuously worsened such that from the best forum in the world we become an mediocre club. My suggestion is to start an collective action and formulate our own rules to which Agon need to confirm. We are the forum not the owners of the site. They earn their living thanks to us not the other way round. I think that collective thraet to terminate the membership will do the job.

okay...

Well, simply no "smear campaign;" Dietrich, Accoustical Systems, Brakemeier, Dertonearm, and the infamous Kasugi over at Ebay are all the same characters with the same M.O., take your money, prevaricate regarding delivery, send non-working items, take prepayments and never deliver and refuse to make refunds, not honor warranties, and have "marketing" friends promoting the same "song and dance" to new problems in-the-making.

In one of my cases, while Dietrich Brakemeier/Accoustical Systems made many unfounded assertions trying to keep
my monies, AMEX refunded ~$8500.00 to me. Thank goodness I used AMEX with that transaction.

In the other cases, Dietrich Brakemeier/Accoustical Systems still owes me

refunds for items not delivered, not completed, and not working totaling $6240.00.

Mike tells me he is still owed $10s of thousands of refunds from Dietrich Brakemeier/Accoustical Systems...same operator, same pattern for the last couple of decades.

So, we have a fellow and Company, Dietrich Brakemeier/Acoustical Systems that has an ongoing history of being dishonest, why would an honest dealer want to represent that pair?