Most helpful audio companies


I don't think I saw this thread before, if it already exists: cover my head with ashes.

A few days ago I spit my gall at Vibex as one of the most customer unfriendly companies I have ever encountered. (I consider not giving any information on the products the epitome of customer unfriendliness; meanwhile, even the Austrian/German distributor admitted that Vibex never tells them anything and never will). And whilst I am at it, allow me to lambast Wireworld and Audio Physic as well.

More importantly, though, why not reward the guys that will bend over backwards to try and help their customers, by which I don't mean attempting to sell their products but genuinely give advice (which may mean advice not to purchase one or the other product) and let us share their knowledge and experience. Keeping to manufacturers only, my nominees are:

Tidal Audio (Joern Janczak and Lothar Braeun)
Audioplan (Thomas Kuehn)
AMR (Vince Luke)
VooDoo Cable (Bruce Richardson)
PS Audio (Paul McGowan)
Townshend (Max and Sue Townshend)

Alright then, here are a few non-manufacturers as well (non-exhaustive!): special thanks to Tomasso Piemontese, Alex Loth, Albert Porter, Ed Doggen, John Potis et al.

Three cheers to all of them!

karelfd
I just got off the phone with Dusty at Channel Islands, he was checking my phono pre......... it turned out just fine, the problem was in my system........ any way he was so patient and nice and cool and I could go on forever, Great guy. I've had good luck with these owners, VTL and Harmonic Tech were nice people.
Easy ... Frank Dai at Signal Cable, Ty Lashbrook of Tyler Acoustics, and Paul Weitzel at Tube Research Labs (TRL). These are guys who sometimes answer calls directly and always return phone messages or emails. They're great examples of what customer service is all about.
Atma Sphere - Ralph Karsten
Merlin - Bobby Palkovic
Millersound - Bill Legall
VAC - Kevin Hayes
Victor and Steve at Balanced Audio (BAT) are very helpful and customer oriented as well. Nice folks.
Paul Grzybek at Tube Audio Design has always been very helpful to me. He was quite willing to do a mod for me on the TAD-150 preamp. Thiel also gets an A+ in my book for help with advice over the years.