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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Experience? Right? Wrong? Still Waiting...Posted by Paul S on: 6/4/2010

Bill, I hope you fare better with your units' operation than others who have written in to various forums. From these posts, assembling anecdotal data, it is not difficult to extrapolate rough failure rates, which appear to be just about luck-of-the-draw, which at least appears to indicate ??? QA. Further, based on a fair amount of corroberating evidence to the contrary, at this point I take your "insider" report about APS QA with salt. As for your directive that I, "...refrain from commenting on that which you do not know", please save this sophomoric take for the sites where people live and die by brands, etc. Setting aside my "wrong viewpoint", at 61 years of age, with 45+ years at hi-fi, and almost as many years in business, I certainly have had enough "experience" to make the generic observations I have made, based on data available to anyone who can read and piece it together. And you never did say if it was just the one (of 2...) or if it was both of your units that failed to self-spec... We already know from reading about it here that although Romy's unit works where it counts, it has always been defective by APS' own standards, and by their own admission, just like all the other units Romy had from them, etc.

Like Romy keeps saying, and I really do get it, to the extent that APS have "succeeded", they have done it largely despite themselves, and the things you appear to be defending are not really factors in the "success" of these units, at least not to date. Of course, I hope you are "right", and I am certainly willing to be "wrong", if that means they start shipping consistently reliable units that self spec AND sound good. I suppose I am ready for a certain amount of "beta suffering", but I think, not so much as appears likely at this point, based on currently available reports vs. my present hi-fi budget.

Best regards,
Paul S

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