Thanks everyone... I really should come by more often. I see some old friends on here that I really miss.
Apologies for not being more active on the forums the last year. I could talk at length on the supply chain problems we have had this year. Not as an excuse, but just to talk about what's been happening behind the overall scene. We're not the only ones, many others are having problems too.
Not only is just trying to GET parts difficult, the quality dip we have seen during the last year has been very disheartening. In fact we've had to change some parts out completely in our Avian Series amps lately due to poor quality.
Heck... even our power knob had to be changed to a push button lately because the shafts of the great old radial power switches were starting to break off in shipping. Even though it was just one batch... it was a LARGE batch. We never had that before - and from a great old time-honored Japanese brand too.
Steel and aluminum have doubled in price since Thanksgiving too. So just getting the raw materials to the chassis shop in Dallas has been a chore lately. Heck, even powder coating has doubled~!
The manufacturing world is changing fast, we can only hope that the quality gets better again once the vaccines are distributed and old codgers like me can finally feel safe going out. Maybe we can even go to a show again someday!?
As to getting an amp to millercarbon, I'd love to. And I certainly would have once upon a time too. But I don't even have a single MK3 or MK3.1 myself, and haven't for almost 8 months... we are shipping them out as soon as they leave the 72 hour break-in table. We just simply cannot seem to build them fast enough.
I think well over 90% of our customers never even write on any forums. They get their amps and just listen to music and call me if they need some great old tubes to play with.
That may be a good thing in retrospect... it was well over a decade before we ever saw anything negative written about us anywhere. That was a great run.
Gnite all... it's way too late.
Apologies for not being more active on the forums the last year. I could talk at length on the supply chain problems we have had this year. Not as an excuse, but just to talk about what's been happening behind the overall scene. We're not the only ones, many others are having problems too.
Not only is just trying to GET parts difficult, the quality dip we have seen during the last year has been very disheartening. In fact we've had to change some parts out completely in our Avian Series amps lately due to poor quality.
Heck... even our power knob had to be changed to a push button lately because the shafts of the great old radial power switches were starting to break off in shipping. Even though it was just one batch... it was a LARGE batch. We never had that before - and from a great old time-honored Japanese brand too.
Steel and aluminum have doubled in price since Thanksgiving too. So just getting the raw materials to the chassis shop in Dallas has been a chore lately. Heck, even powder coating has doubled~!
The manufacturing world is changing fast, we can only hope that the quality gets better again once the vaccines are distributed and old codgers like me can finally feel safe going out. Maybe we can even go to a show again someday!?
As to getting an amp to millercarbon, I'd love to. And I certainly would have once upon a time too. But I don't even have a single MK3 or MK3.1 myself, and haven't for almost 8 months... we are shipping them out as soon as they leave the 72 hour break-in table. We just simply cannot seem to build them fast enough.
I think well over 90% of our customers never even write on any forums. They get their amps and just listen to music and call me if they need some great old tubes to play with.
That may be a good thing in retrospect... it was well over a decade before we ever saw anything negative written about us anywhere. That was a great run.
Gnite all... it's way too late.