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Finally Going Somewhere - Just Got My Estimate For My A77 From AB Tech.

Posted by marc-homeslice (A) on June 6, 2007 at 12:08:41

Hey guys -- i posted a ways back about having myriad issues with my "refirbished" A77.. and have just got off the phone with Jack at JM Tech. Services.

Turns out while my deck has Mark IV cosmetics.. it is in fact a Mark II in Mark IV clothing.. at this point, it's no major thing to me.. its mine and i just want a nice serviceable piece of equipment.

In addition to the first brilliant restoring outfit not flagging the model difference, the deck had a minor gain issue and prominent recording issues due to shot trim pots throughout. Even after the lousy restore job, the brakes still need some help.. he was not able to source OEM pads for the brakes, but is able to do a few things to allow the brakes and transport to function to factory specs, as he says.

None of this comes as a real surprise.. as it became increasingly clear yo me that the first guy, didn't seem to know what the hell he was doing. I chose him because to my novice exp., he initially sounded savvy about the deck and he offered a long, multi-year service warranty for it. Warranty ain't much good if you can't fix a Revox deck properly, is it? After I began to learn more and more about Revoxes (by default given the sitch. really), it seemed clear that the guy was incompetent.

So to sum it all up, while i'm out a few hundred from the first botched restorer treatment, he did manage to replace shot VU meters with good ones, clean the heck out of it cosmetically, find me a nice cabinet for it and supplied me with a number of little cosmetic and rubber treatment products that SHOULD be helpful ;-) I could call him and bitch and moan and see if i can get some funds back.. but that will likely be a futile and frustrating experience. Maybe i'll call him.. i can't decide.. may just want to chock it up to a loss.. i do have some financial victories in this hobby to largely offset the bad experiences.

In hidsight, it seems I should have come here first and found out about Jack and JM.. I don't have it here working perfectly.. but he seems to have a great rep. and sounded very competent on the phone. His rates were not ridiculous either.

Thanks for listening.. i'm really dying to record some things and it would appear i am close to being able to. I'll let you all know how it goes when i have the unit back.

Thanks, Marc

Edits: 06/09/07

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