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"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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**Let me re-state the situation:

* Peter Stein is supporting and servicing products he manufactured. I am
servicing and supporting ME and other products.
* There are others who service and support ME products. Due to the careful
matching of semiconductors in all ME products, servicing the output stages
by anyone other than PS (or his appointed successor/s) is a real bad idea.
* Supplying schematics to anyone calling themselves a 'tech', in the case
of ME, may be a very bad idea. Techs who are unable to perform even basic
fault-finding, can end up doing far more damage to the amplifier.
* In the case of most ME models, the output stages are modular in format.
This makes removal and replacement a quick, simple exercise. Peter Stein
(and his appointed successors) can effect service to those output modules
and the modules posted back, safely, inexpensively and easily. Freighting
amplifiers around the nation is not required. All that is required, is a
competent tech.
* I have seen many ME amplifiers which have been worked on by incompetent
techs. The result is not pretty, nor cheap to rectify.
* Poorly serviced ME amplifiers reflect badly on the product's reputation.

Trevor Wilson

One would have thought or at least hoped that electronics' would have
advanced, improved, or at the very least progressed to a point where a 30
year old design could be called dated, superseded or at the very last
'outmoded' By modern technology, multi-layered chips, and modern
manufacturing technique's

At what point do you decide that up-dating, re-fitting, or simply
replacing old components for new ones, is beyond the scope of transforming
something into what you consider expectable or comparable to a modern day
design. and at the very least on a par with what is available today.

Or have you also updated your Holden commodore, by removing the starting
handle out the front of the radiator, and while it might have been an
advantage in the late fifties to have such a leg breaker, we now have
modern electronics' making your starting handle obsolete.

In short we get to the point where a 30 year old design, is simply that,
nothing more nothing less, Of cause supporting something of that age does
have considerable advantages, for one thing, nothing new needs to be
learned, Old relics constantly breakdown, so an income can be assured in
your retirement years.

Of cause it could also be argued that a modern day design, would simply
not make it in this modern age, and there would simply be no need to start
manufacturing new models as the diminishing market and the production
costs would make anything new completely out of reach, price wise to Jo
Public, unless it was made in China, Korea or Taiwan, and for that to
happen schematic's would need to be supplied to the factory of choice,
with a undertaking that Chinese laws would need to change to protect the
Copyright's of such valuable documents


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