In Reply to: A good case for direct sales and dumping the dealer.... posted by AbeCollins on December 16, 2024 at 09:18:47:
Most audiophiles especially from the older generation will much sooner give the money to their beloved dealers than to relatives in need. There are constant declaration of support and how we should put through college their kids while our kids should learn the trade. The best way is to copy the existing device and start selling instruction manual for making the clones. This the essence of Mend it Mark controversy. The guy created the video to direct traffic to his behind the scenes commercial venture of selling the documentation for 240 British pounds a file to interested parties. We all have to survive and it's still better than push a wife or a daughter to make money through "only fans' online activity. I'm 100% sure most here would not see anything wrong with it. Money is money.
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Follow Ups
- 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)