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There absolutely is risk. A 100% satisfaction guarantee offered by a legendary company like McIntosh results in negligible risk. Here we have a 100% guarantee offered by a 1-guy company with questionable feedback and presenting quality of work that looks "quirky" at best. You don't have to search far on the internet to see how customer complaints/returns/disputes from situations with similar circumstances often play out...
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Not only that, his band aids are as rough as guts.
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I wouldn't touch something like this without an ironclad money back guarantee.
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I too would be skeptical of these 'upgrades', but for what its worth, here's another AA members experience upgrading his C712 a few years ago.
http://www.audioaficionado.org/mcint...company-4.html
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I did precisely this with my last 3 speaker purchases to see if speaker break-in is real. ..Upon opening my new speakers, I played one speaker fairly loudly overnight, then compared both side-by-side the next morning. Absolutely NO difference. Expectation bias has an enormous impact on what we hear when we "upgrade" our systems. ..Sadly, very few of us seem interested in trying to separate out the real from the imagined improvements in sound. Last edited by syd123; 05-30-2013 at 10:19 AM. |
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Any "upgrade" this company purports to do should be audible in a high-resolution before/ after digital recording which could be given to prospective customers either as download from their website or by having a cd mailed to you. So they claim a modification reduces interference/noise? Great, so using a sample component and a high quality ADC converter, record a high-res before music sample at REC OUT jack. ..Then perform mod and repeat! ..If their mod indeed makes the huge audible improvement they claim, this would certainly allow any prospective to hear it for themselves by comparing the two files. ..What could be more compelling! ..Yet nothing like this is offered.
Instead, they want you to part w/ your component for an indeterminate length of time after which you're so stoked to have it back that you're quite inclined to hear an improvement regardless of whether it really exists. ..It's amazing to me that ANYONE has been taken in by this ploy. Last edited by syd123; 05-30-2013 at 10:14 AM. |
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I've seen McIntosh MC2KW amps advertised with an upgrade option on that website. Who in their right mind would buy grey MC2KW amps from that company & then allow that proprietor to pull them apart & stick crap inside them?
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But would you then be hearing the mod or the ADC?
That's always going to be an issue as well, and ignores component interaction. I'm not defending the upgrade per se, rather noting issues in the test methodology. Note also that no matter how premium priced the product, price/performance compromises always have to be made and the use of say $200 more in components yields a $600 or so increase in MSRP, and market research may indicate the resultant drop in sales would make it not worthwhile to do. Last edited by BillK; 05-30-2013 at 01:15 PM. |
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Remember, this company claims these upgrades result is SIGNIFICANT improvements. ..They don't make any caveats about your gear having to be just like theirs or that whether or not you hear it depends on "system interaction", etc.. So again, if the improvement is indeed significant, then it should transcend ADC conversion, system interaction, etc.. Last edited by syd123; 05-30-2013 at 02:56 PM. |
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