Got the Shakes
500+ Head-Fier
$482!!!???
So tell me, how much did you insure it for? $4000? Also, I have mine packed up in the original box with original packing, ready to go as soon as I get to my local UPS store tomorrow. I wonder if they will make me repack mine.
On a side note, I was also going over the details in Kickstarter update #59. Here are my takeaways:
1)It appears that the Smyths at least plan on having some version of the Realiser Exchange up and running around the same time that many of our units are with them, being upgraded. Specifically, the update from March 11th estimated 6-8 weeks which would be anywhere between this week up to 3 weeks from now.
2)The stated plan, further, is for Smyth Research to upload the CanJam PRIRs as an incentive for people to sign up for the Realiser Exchange. Hopefully, that means that those PRIRs would be available at the time of the launch.
The following points are of much less significance to me at this time.
3)The APM110 platform will be compatible with DTS-X Pro decoding: "We have been informed by MDS that they are in the process of porting the new dts-X Pro decoder suite to the APM110 platform which is slated to also support up to 24 speakers." DTS-X Pro, in fact, can run up to 32 channels and is limited to 24 channels with APM110 upgraded A16. https://dts.com/dtsxpro
4)The APM110 equipped A16's, nonetheless, would still be limited to 16 channels should Smyth Research decide to get a license for Dirac Live room correction. On the other hand, APM89L equipped A16's will remain incompatible from a hardware standpoint with Dirac Live.
5)Anyone in the future choosing to sell their A16 would, obviously, have to take into account whether or not they have the fully upgraded A16, along with what the market value of an A16 might be when sold sans a Smyth Research warranty.
Yes. I certainly got charged a bit more because I was using a UPS Store and having it repacked was like $24 for the box and that stuff, but when I put the larger box size I had to use and everything in the UPS online calculator it says $432.10. I didn't have the original box, so I used a smaller one. What happened was for the UPS insurance to pay out was I needed a box with more space for padding than the one I used. I was hoping to keep the cost down by using the smallest box possible. The dimensions of the larger box added $100 to the shipping cost (it was only 4" longer and a few inches deeper but with the billable weight formula UPS uses it added a bunch of cost). I insured it for $4000. Anything over $2500 tripped there needing to be like four extra customs forms. Basically without help there was no way that everything would have been filled out how it needed to be and I would have been insuring something that they would never have paid a claim out on because of the box.
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up of my experience since I might be the first one in the US at least to deal with shipping their unit back. I don't know if there is a better option when it comes to cost than UPS, but the other options that I looked at online were all like $380 or more and some of those were before insurance.