Help contacting BEL re: 1001

Richard Brown should be ashamed of himself for abandoning you in this way. However, we all need to be aware that we are putting ourselves in the hands of one person when we buy products from a company like BEL. A plane crash, a heart attack or a loss of interest is all it takes to undermine your investment.

Why don't you try to track down Tom Miiller the reviewer who championed BEL through the Absolute Sound. Maybe he is still in touch with Richard Brown and maybe he would be inclined to intercede on your behalf. It's worth a try.

Macrojack,

Thanks for the sympathetic message. I am not suprised the company is struggling, if I knew I would be waiting this long I would have tried to fix them myself.

FYI I hear the company is not struggling - on the contrary they are overwhelmed with orders, and for good reason. Rumor is that BEL will stop taking new orders altogether soon. Anyone who owns a 1001 MkV is very lucky indeed! I'm keeping mine. :-)

You may also want to have an authorized dealer contact him. I'm in Houston, and the local dealer Audio Concepts is where I bought my pair of BEL MK V monoblocks. All I can say is that these are the most awesome amps I have owned and wish Dick Brown a long life and also wish him the best.

Sadly, according to one of his oldest/largest dealers who knows him well, Dick Brown died within the last couple of days. For the past several months he had not felt well enough to do much work.

A former Recon. Marine, Dick was a unique individual and a true genius at designing and voicing his one and only product, the BEL 1001. Because his assembly process entailed listening to each component as it went into every amp, his production volume was miniscule, especially from 2007, on.