Some internet hero reposted the original, amazing, Mend It Mark YouTube Tom Evans 25,000 phono preamp repair video.
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Topic - Tom Evans YouTube video is back online - Dynamite Ham 20:46:43 12/13/24 (55)
- Dealer grabbed 60% of the retail 25k just moving it from the shelf - Wojciech 15:45:09 12/15/24 (45)
- Everything, everywhere is marked up by someone. - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 10:45:24 12/17/24 (0)
- A good case for direct sales and dumping the dealer.... - AbeCollins 09:18:47 12/16/24 (43)
- Pass on all the savings to the customer, I think not! - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 10:48:11 12/17/24 (1)
- RE: Pass on all the savings to the customer, I think not! - AbeCollins 09:37:02 12/19/24 (0)
- Have you checked that Audio Research schematics ;?) - Wojciech 09:40:50 12/16/24 (40)
- Yes I did... - AbeCollins 10:50:23 12/16/24 (39)
- Good for you . You're all set to service ARC equipment - Wojciech 11:22:02 12/16/24 (38)
- What is your problem? - AbeCollins 12:27:52 12/16/24 (37)
- The components designations are sanded off and replaced with color codes - Wojciech 12:51:12 12/16/24 (36)
- The color codes - E-Stat 13:43:13 12/16/24 (34)
- Obviously, but the inscriptions are gone as well - Wojciech 13:58:18 12/16/24 (33)
- RE: Obviously, but the inscriptions are gone as well - kentaja 07:31:00 12/18/24 (4)
- I never said it was nefarious - Wojciech 08:16:22 12/18/24 (3)
- RE: I never said it was nefarious - kentaja 09:01:59 12/18/24 (2)
- RE: I never said it was nefarious - Wojciech 09:50:31 12/18/24 (1)
- And example - Wojciech 10:08:38 12/18/24 (0)
- It was work done for local ARC dealer's customers - Wojciech 14:43:37 12/16/24 (0)
- Cheap out as you will - E-Stat 14:08:24 12/16/24 (26)
- Right to repair is not "cheaping out" as you will - Steve O 13:35:16 12/18/24 (25)
- I'm not an ARC repairman but.... - AbeCollins 09:48:48 12/19/24 (20)
- I guess - E-Stat 18:10:15 12/21/24 (17)
- Severe bass roll-off typical of ARC - AbeCollins 10:23:03 12/24/24 (16)
- Welp, that didn't work - E-Stat 10:56:12 12/24/24 (15)
- Worked perfectly given - AbeCollins 11:26:47 12/24/24 (14)
- The graph doesn't lie... - E-Stat 11:30:08 12/24/24 (13)
- The chart doesn't lie.... - AbeCollins 14:10:30 12/24/24 (12)
- Yes. Really.... - AbeCollins 16:43:14 12/24/24 (10)
- RE: Yes. Really.... - E-Stat 17:07:06 12/24/24 (9)
- "What amps on the market today use 600 ohms?" - Steve O 19:01:24 12/25/24 (8)
- Great reason to pay attention to impedance matching - E-Stat 19:46:39 12/25/24 (7)
- Now you know: there are indeed amps out there with low impedance inputs - Steve O 05:23:49 12/26/24 (6)
- RE: Now you know: there are indeed amps out there with low impedance inputs - Tre' 07:16:01 12/26/24 (0)
- Yes - E-Stat 06:02:54 12/26/24 (4)
- After all this - Steve O 07:55:44 12/26/24 (0)
- "low to high" solves the problems. - Tre' 07:18:45 12/26/24 (2)
- That's what I learned fifty years ago - E-Stat 12:05:47 12/26/24 (1)
- You learned that 50 years ago . . . But ARC apparently learned something different . . . (nt) - Steve O 16:51:54 12/26/24 (0)
- Really? - E-Stat 14:23:41 12/24/24 (0)
- ...but you play one on TV? - 1973shovel 10:36:35 12/19/24 (1)
- ...And I slept at a Holiday Inn Express - AbeCollins 17:35:54 12/20/24 (0)
- Along with being... - E-Stat 13:52:05 12/18/24 (3)
- "No discussion of "sonic's" is necessary" - Steve O 14:55:24 12/18/24 (2)
- See you're locked into 1976 -nt - E-Stat 15:02:09 12/18/24 (1)
- No I'm not locked into 1976. I'm locked into not even considering ARC - Steve O 15:49:44 12/18/24 (0)
- Here is you right to repair crap - Wojciech 13:03:08 12/16/24 (0)
- Looks like there are a few re-posts - AbeCollins 09:13:55 12/14/24 (8)
- RE: Looks like there are a few re-posts - dgaapc7 09:49:07 12/16/24 (0)
- I remember Tekton bullying short lived YT affair - Wojciech 17:23:19 12/14/24 (6)
- I'm sure TE phonos sounds fine - AbeCollins 20:48:56 12/14/24 (5)
- RE: I'm sure TE phonos sounds fine - Wojciech 21:41:50 12/14/24 (4)
- What is your problem? - Daverz 18:03:55 12/15/24 (1)
- mob mentality - Wojciech 19:47:13 12/15/24 (0)
- How dense do you have to be.... - Tromatic 05:15:43 12/15/24 (1)
- It was a joke and I'm not dense - Wojciech 06:31:03 12/15/24 (0)