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

[amirm]

I watched Mark's video and thought it was fun and great again in how he managed to repair such things. Shame it got taken down.

 

[Randyman...]

Mark even made a nice repair manual for it! That was classy.

Filing a copyright claim = not so classy.

 

[Wil_Bloodworth]

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There was no music in the video. It was a false copyright claim from Tom Evans. It even says that in the message that you circled in red.

 

[Soniclife]

Mark doesn't know what's going on either.

 

[Mad_Economist]

Youtuber MendItMark posted a video some weeks ago tearing down and repairing an expensive Tom Evans Audio Design preamplifier which the manufacturer had deemed irreparable. Recently the video was taken down due to a copyright strike against it. Mark has a short video with the details

As yet it is not certain that This was action on the manufacturer's part, but regardless of who initiated the strike, YouTube should face pushback on this. Plus, Mark's a pretty fun watch if you're not too concerned about PPMs.

Edit: My apologies if outgoing youtube links are not allowed - this is not intended as promotion for Mark (although I'm a fan), just as awareness raising for a "boutique" audio company's negative product video being pulled, which I think has pertinence to this forum.

Edit 2: Apologies for repeat posting, thanks to the mods for moving this to the thread.

 

[rank]

It was more detailed with a greater sense of image solidity bringing images much closer to listeners and a presentation more immediate and direct sounding. Front hall to mid-hall to rear bass tauter and punchier but without doubt, less warm and percussion sound more percussiony.

 

[JustJones]

It was more detailed with a greater sense of image solidity bringing images much closer to listeners and a presentation more immediate and direct sounding. Front hall to mid-hall to rear bass tauter and punchier but without doubt, less warm and percussion sound more percussiony.

 

[AndyChambers]

I see Mark has posted a completely unrelated response ;-)

 

[restorer-john]

Is there any way to get access to a blocked YouTube video? -Like archive.org or something similar for videos?

Normally, I download his videos, but I didn't bother with that one. Watched it- what an absolute disaster of a product. Pity he didn't bother to actually test its performance. He just repaired it, ran a few basic tests and that was it.

 

[restorer-john]

I see Mark has posted a completely unrelated response ;-)

That was funny if you'd seen the original.

 

[Dialectic]

YouTube removed the video because of alleged copyright infringement. It seems likely that Tom Evans himself is behind this.

Mark's response is amusing:

 

[Randyman...]

Wow - Eating while I was watching and almost made a mess Mark is a champ!!!

 

[Old_School_Brad]

HAHAHA! Oh no! I just sprayed coffee on my laptop when that part came up... pure comedy gold!

 

[Randyman...]

HAHAHA! Oh no! I just sprayed coffee on my laptop when that part came up... pure comedy gold!

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[Phorize]

That was hilarious. It behooves those selling prosposterly overpriced electronics that can't audibly best a £200 device and are housed in frankly DIY standard casing to keep their heads down. I guess it must jar that the drone like deference that these manufacturers recieve in cultish audiophile circles isn't present in the real world where measurements talk and bullshit walks.

 

[restorer-john]

the links to the original video are here:

https://archive.org/details/the-gbp...tom-evans-mastergroove-sr-mk-iii-rjbp-fsfzi-i

and here:

https://odysee.com/The-£25,000-Pre-Amp-that-went-Wrong---Tom-Evans-Mastergroove-SR-mkIII:c

 

[Randyman...]

Didn't realize it would become such a hot topic when I initially ran across it before it was taken down. Smells alot like Erin's situation, but hopefully w/o the threat of legal action from that stingy Grinch.

 

[Keith_W]

The copyright strikes are much more insidious than a legal letter. (1) Anybody can make a copyright claim whether you are the copyright holder or not (2) The copyright claim is processed automatically by Youtube and automatically results in a video takedown (3) a strike is issued, accumulate enough of these in a 90 day period and your channel gets deleted, (4) the path to resolution is slow and Youtube's suggested resolution is to take it to court.

This happened to a Youtube channel I watch called "Magnates Media". This channel is worth watching, it describes the rise (and sometimes fall) of various magnates in history like Rockefeller, Uber, McDonald's, etc. Somebody stole his video and reuploaded it, then claimed a copyright strike against him for his own video (!!!) as part of an extortion scam. Watch it here:

 

[Chrispy]

What kind of moron buys such a pre-amp?

 

[Randyman...]

What kind of moron buys such a pre-amp?

I'm visioning: One that has too much money in search of audio bliss, yet will never even consider acoustically treating their listening space