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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: Align your FM tuners!
Post Subject: The sad state of audio repair - the right people are not there anymore.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/5/2009
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After the tragically story that took place last week witch a local fool who fancy him a tuner master

(Here, and a couple of posts after this: http://www.RomyTheCat.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11242  )

I brought the Schwarz home and learned that this idiot did damage the tuner. Previously it was absolutely impossible to overload the Schwarz’s front end but now it become sensitive to overload. Apparently the cretin un-calibrated the auto-gain control circuit, which is BTW quite complex in Schwarz. I remember a few months back a recording industry guy sent me pissed email insisting that shell not suggest cut the hands of the Morons who vandalize recordings by stupid sound editing. Well, think again…

The even brings a larger point – the electronics technicians who are able to so more or less competent job is left less and less each year. The serious people from electronics industry told me that electronics schools do not teach properly anymore, furthermore they insist that electronic knowledge is being exterminated in this country. This all lead to the situation that no one can service gear anymore.

Juts for fan I spoke with a few people who are involved in Boston repair service and it was shocked how gloomy the picture is. According to 2 individuals who are heavy players in Boston reaper scene there is a certain level of repair complexity above which it is dangers to give equipment to the repair men. They insist that all their colleges are very limiters in experience and capacity not to mention the desire to work with anything more than the cookie-cutter simplistic repair. The people who are willing and able to take more time, more money and perform any more or less advanced tasked looks like are evaporating….

The horror of it that some of those who are left are so fucking off that they are not even understand the complexity of tasks and level of demands for this services. It is like they work in a restaurant and you ask them for Penfolds Grange 1951. They bring you Diet Pepsi and in your surprise they reply: “What the heck is a difference? They both are liquids!”

The Cat

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