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Originally Posted by manaox2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
It looks like its there for insulating. $1000 for that kind of job is pretty appalling. He should pay somebody to do the work for him and let him do the thinking if he can't do better then that. Maybe he could fix his turn around time too and actually communicate properly with customers from the reports I'm reading.
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i find it simply amazing that when there is a claim made by one person in an audio forum that it is simply taken at face value, even when that claim flies in the face of hundreds of satisfied customers, several very favorable reviews in well-regarded (e)publications, and a small but well-established business.
"But wait", the detractors and posters lining up to pillory the manufacturer say, "There are photos proving the posters point".
well, i'd like to know how the op can prove that the phots represent the exact state the unit arrived in. granted, the damping "goop" would not win any supermodel competitions, but that's only a cosmetic issue. people are too willing to simply believe the lurid story as-is. do any of you have real, substantiatable first-hand experience with Paul and/or TRL? Interestingly, those that do, speak highly of them. there is a burden of proof here, and two sides to the story-- hearing only one and jumping to a conclusion is at best, intellectually lazy, and at worst, appallingly stupid.
Did the OP actually post any documents verifying what was actually paid for the unit, and what the cost fo shipping was? what parts were substituted? what did the unit look like before shipping to TRL? what did the OP and his skilled companions do to the unit once they got it?
i do not mean to single out the poster i've quoted either. just that the general attitute among the diy crowd is that they seem to think that it is easy to extrapolate from their limited kitchen-table building experiences to what's involved in actual electronics manufacturing, whether small or large scale. i, for example, recently built a headphone amp. the parts that ended up being used total about $600. the total cost of everything which was bought during the project (just parts, no tooling, etc... was almost 5x that amount.) i had lots of conversations with a friend who is a skilled designer, who did not charge me for his time. i also spent lots of time on the net doing research. i borrowed a bunch of headphones from the place i work-- for free. In a business, these expenses wold have added to the price of the product.
developing a mod or a product costs money and time. part of the goal of spending said time and money is to be able to feed one's family. paul's big amps sell in extremely small quantitites which does add to their price-- it has to. there are lots of one off cars on the market that cost in the 100s of thousands of dollars. only an idiot would call them a rip-off since cars can obviously be bought for $20,000, or that detroit could build one of those for 1/3 the price. well, maybe, with the benefits of multi million dollar factories...
anyway, not sure that you should actually infer much of anything anout trl based on the op's rants, other than he does not employ Martha Stewart to apply his damping goop!
