Repairing The Questionable £25,000 Tom Evans Audiophile Pre-Amp

[Old_School_Brad]

Elsa & Spiderman ?

Rule 34?

 

[rank]

Oh yes, okay, I'm not really specialized in that. Well, acts between consenting people are up to each person's choice if they remain more or less "natural", without pain.

 

[Cougar]

Thanks, mate! I thought I had checked everywhere, but you managed to find two sources.

As for the preamp -what an utter disappointment. It looks cheap, feels poorly made, and exudes "plastic fantastic" with its flimsy boards, badly fitted standoffs, and those "handmade copper grounding roofs" that resemble shanty bungalows.

The way the plastic housing is assembled is downright atrocious. I cringed through the entire video, with its price tag haunting me the whole time. Even the feet are just cheap, self-adhesive foam pieces -you don’t even get proper feet for what they’re charging.

The manufacturer was shown at the beginning sitting in front of proper test equipment (similar to what Menditmarks uses). It makes you think the guy knows what he’s doing, which only adds a sinister, cynical edge to the whole operation.

And the filing off of silicon components...

Companies like this need to be held accountable!

I did some searching on the web for some of TE's older gear, and what is very strange/weird is that none of his other gear looks like this. Prior gear was nicely laid out with work. Nothing like what was in the Phono preamp in question. Looks like a prototype, but even then no excuse for what was sold to the customer. His PCB's are good looking but everything else is a spaghetti factory, like it was a rush job hoping no one would open this up.

From what I'm hearing, this design is almost a straight copy of the Application Note from the IC he used. Only difference is him saying its a closely matched components for other parts.

 

[JIW]

The original video is back up for those still interested in this case.

It just came up on my YouTube front page. Judging by the comments, it has been back up at least one month by now. The below is the break in comments after sorting by newest.