"Rob"

Thanks Mike - I've just had a confirmation from Quad that that is, indeed,
the deal.

Seems amazing value - labour fixed at £48 plus VAT whatever needs doing,
plus parts. Last time I took something in for repair to a local place it
cost £50 just for them to look at it.


** Return to factory service is NOTHING like what your local repair tech
has to do in order to fix something.

For one, the factory generally has the needed PCBs, on hand, aplenty.

For another, they will not bother attempting the time consuming, highly
skilled job of diagnosing exactly which components are faulty - but rather
will have low skilled " monkeys " swap PCBs about until it goes again.

Or doesn't.

As a result, you pay a low or fixed labour cost but a get very steep parts
( mostly unnecessary) bill instead.

Eminently repairable gear is often declared to be uneconomic or impossible
to fix by this primitive method.

Once the stock of PCBs for old models dries up - they are ****ed and so are
you.




...... Phil