Dave xxxx wrote:
Keith G wrote:

OK.

There are one or two here to whom I've recommended a *certain* valve
amp designer/parts supplier. Well, after reeling out enough rope to
hang even someone with the head the size of a planet (where TF did
that come from....? ;-) I've got to say I hereby retract my
recommendations.
The person in question (no names, no pack drill - those involved will
know *exactly* who I mean) is a nice enough geezer and certainly
knows his stuff, but he's so damned unreliable even Job got fed up
and went to Angela's! One poor little sod I recommended to him got
jacked around for 6 months by well-meaning favours (and BS) which
ended up nowhere and he had to spend unbudgetted funds to buy his way
out of a 'going nowhere' situation! (Not good.)

I think part of the guy's problem is that, in his case, 'out of puff'
has got bugger-all to do with running up a flight of stairs.....

;-)


Is that the guy you sent me link to?



Well, I know Keith has had problems, and has more experence of this than
me, but I find that "he" is fine if you use "him" for getting
components, I suspect its the more involving things that he offers to do
(to be helpful) that don't happen, as I suspect "he" offers more than
"he" can do.

I spent about a hour last night chatting about all sorts of things,
started with valves, ended up talking about guitarists. Nice chat, but
maybe not what he should be doing when there are orders to fill. I don't
know. I ended up ordering 8 resistors for all that, which "he" didn't
bothe charging me for. But then again last time, the bill was £130, so
it comes around.

I just know, I will use "him" whenever I can, just because of "his"
know-how and interest.

Whne I used to buy the odd components from Audio Note, the feeling was
that they didn't want to be doing that, and that as a lowly diy'er you
didn't understand what they were doing (turns out to be partly true as
they stopped selling parts, and sold the franchise on, and that involves
another interesting fact about AN and the way they deal, but that will
have to be off line for legal reasons :-)).

--
Nick

"Life has surface noise" - John Peel 1939-2004