Your most disappointing purchase or audition?

Lse, I guess you have never read Stereophile and Sam Tellig's love affair with Triangle Loudspeakers? Tellig has spent vacation time at the factory in France. He would make a great poster child for Triangle,he loves them that much.

I'm not dissing Triangle but your comment is a bit ironic considering your speaker preference,it had me LOL.

Oh,and a very good thread Zavato.

Of course, no product is going to suit everyone when it comes to sound and/or system compatibility, so I make no claims that way. However, one thing that I do feel is true is the reliability and support that Atma Sphere provides in their product.

Two things to potentially consider in regard to the issue at hand:
1) Atma Sphere used to offer their amps in kit form. Obviously, once someone undertakes their own build, all bets are off. At that point, the final result reflects the builder as much or more than the actual product or company providing said product.

However, as that time was both very long ago and very recent, I would guess this pair of amps didn't come via the kit route

2) A lot of people over the years have modified their Atma Sphere amplifiers. Again, using the kit rationale, at that point, what comes out of that now more aligns with the person performing the upgrade, as opposed to what they started with, or the company who manufactured the product.

I'm not saying one of these two scenarios explains what happened, but they are two possible explanations to add into the mix.

I know that Atmasphere isn't a large corporation, but wouldn't they keep records of things like this, or isn't there a serial number that Tubes108 could provide that would clarify age etc?
At this point, Tubes108 seems to have bowed out of the conversation, and I guess I don't blame him.

All I am going to say is that I have followed this discussion from the beginning. I now have two more names to add to my list of people I won't buy from or sell to, and their names aren't Ralph or Charles.

Browns, it's kind of anal running a black list, isn't it? Anyhow looking at your system, I doubt you could afford to buy any gear from those members anyway and vice versa, I doubt those members would want to buy any of your gear apropos of which I might check out the classified section..