Hi Folks,
I will take strongly the advice to keep away from fet-rolling :(
My experience with Spectral was under the following conditions:
"Hi, I have a DMA 50, I love it. But my teck tells me that it needs a
motorola part that can no longer be found. I've alot of upgrades in it,
like top Vampire (was the brand that they used) RCAs and binding posts
(that
they previously told me *they wouldn't do as an upgrade). Can you help me
with this?"
"No, we will not acept back any product that anyone else has been inside."
Now, i didn't demand to talk to Rick, and didn't like the attitude that the woman gave me, though she might really have been an upper crust *lady. I contacted "Crosby" and he said that he bought up all the rest of that Motorola chip that Spectral hadn't and he sold me 2, for 50 a piece.
My experience with Pass Labs (6 months later) was, "oh yeah, you can upgrade lots of parts in the Aleph 3, diagrams are on the net, or we can mail them to you... or I can look up the vaues if you want."
so after a decade with Spectral, I spent the next decade giving money to
Pass Labs in my upgrade fever. If the folks at Spectral are no longer commanding MIT cables (as I've heard) and will do what even the lofty Krell will, (fix and charge you, and do it again if you like) then my impressions are out dated. For any outdated info I convey, I apologize. But it turned me off big time.
Thanks for all of your comments folks.
BTW: Husky, told me that New Jersey Semi Conductor has them. The part in
the
amp *has the National Semi conductor logo on it, and calling NJSC
found 40 in stock.
Thank you all very much.
