Famous Apt Holman Preamp. Considered to have one of the best phono sections
ever designed in a preamp. Very nice cosmetics. I had my tech. go completely
through this amp, cleaning all switches and contacts. He repaired the muting
relay. It has been tested and meets factory specs. I'll include his invoice
and test measurements as proof this servicing was completed.

You may find one cheaper but it may arrive with problems. The muting relay and
contacts usually need cleaning on this preamp. I have never encountered any
issue with internal ribbon wiring that Brian quacks about. This is probably
the 10th one I've sold. It is an outstanding product.

I can offer a 30 day warranty on this piece. No disappointments. $299 plus
shipping. I will include a copy of the 40+ page technical publication on this
preamp.
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On 28/2/04 14:02, in article ,
"Ken Drescher" wrote:

This is probably
the 10th one I've sold. It is an outstanding product.

It's the same one, sold over and over again.

Bluebook value, $65. Why? It's junk.

http://reviews.iwon.com/pscAudioRevi...er/PRD_118156_
1591crx.aspx

RIPOFF ALERT!

"OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK VALUATION" wrote in
message m...
On 28/2/04 14:02, in article ,
"Ken Drescher" wrote:

This is probably
the 10th one I've sold. It is an outstanding product.

It's the same one, sold over and over again.
Simply a lie.

Bluebook value, $65.
Simply a lie.

Why? It's junk.


http://reviews.iwon.com/pscAudioRevi...er/PRD_118156_
1591crx.aspx

The above review site gives it an average rating of 4.27/5 (26 reviews)!
As is his custom, Ken Drescher offers a 30 day warranty. No complaints have
ever been received in this forum regarding failure to honor warranty.

What you're looking at above is the ranting of Brian L. McCarty, a real
Internet nutcase.


RIPOFF ALERT!
*****VALUE ALERT!!!*****

No one really knows why Brian L. McCarty, an exile from America who lives in
a substandard condo at 65 Vasey Esplanade, Trinity Beach, Cairns, Australia,
continues to stalk Ken Drescher. We know that using his "David Ellison"
alias, McCarty once contacted Ken's local police department with the claim
that Ken was selling stolen goods. We know that McCarty was quickly
identified as a laffer who has made similar claims to other police
departments around the country. Not a single individual has ever been
correctly identified as involved in dishonorable activities.

As an example of McCarty's nutcase mentality, he once filed a complaint with
the city of Newark, Delaware, that their website was not accessible to the
blind!

It would be a classic Freudian psychological study to determine why McCarty
attacks sellers on this group, mostly by misquoting from the Orion Bluebook,
supplying the "wholesale" price which does not apply to private sales. This
is the most ridiculous, trivial crusade in the history of mankind.

And yet, the greatest irony is that McCarty is himself a SCAMMER! Ever since
McCarty was dumped by ABN Amro, he has tried increasingly devious
presentations, all using false identities, to reconstitute himself. One
thing he doesn't seem to understand is that nobody is going to invest with
him, because his reputation stinks like a rotten mackerel.


The death of WorldJAZZ.com...

The latest news is for the umteenth time, Brian L. McCarty has changed the
details of his TOTALLY FALSE web registration. He has (temporarily) put his
faithful sockpuppet "David Ellison" into storage, and replaced it with
"Huang, Ying Hong"

Registrant:
NetSol Private Registration (WORLDJAZZ-DOM)
35/F Lee Gardens
33 Hysan Avenue
Causeway Bay, HK 4103
HK

Domain Name: WORLDJAZZ.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Huang, Ying Hong (37361476P)
Sunny Web Services H.K. Ltd.
Black Tauna
11/F Block 5 China HK City
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon
HK
+852 28886123


The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have informed me that no
documents have ever been filed for WorldJAZZ.

With his WorldJAZZ scam in the spotlight, Brian L. McCarty is attempting to
avoid public embarassment by bringing it to a close as quickly as possible.

In recent days, he's been racheting up the subscription numbers;
"54% SUBSCRIBED AS OF FEBRUARY 13, 2004"
This, of course, is a complete lie.

McCarty is running a big risk here.
If he allows the scam to go on too long, the regulatory authorities might
catch him.
If he folds tomorrow, he'll know (as if we don't) that he's nothing more
than a bad joke. But he can't allow his detractors to turn him into Jay Leno
material, so he will quickly finish the "subscription".

In recent days, McCarty has added two fictitious people to his website:
1. " Ron Groove Davis", who McCarty originally created as "Wes Groove Davis"
2. "Alexei Afonin" (notelephonin) ?
These are added to "Krishna Mahbren", who was created from a living person,
Krishna Mahadoo.

In the meantime, it has been verified that McCarty has an extremely bad
reputation in Cairns, where local businessmen regard him with suspicion.
Communication continues on this subject.

Brian L. McCarty is currently attempting investment fraud. McCarty is an
American citizen, living as an expatriate in Australia. Please read below
for the
details.

The website is remarkable in that it does not contain a single truthful
statement. It changes constantly. Always prominent are nonexistent people
as frontmen, and affiliation with nonexistent events. Previous versions have
also featured fictional alliances with large companies, and with nonexistent
companies. From time to time, McCarty also steals the names of actual people
to decorate his websites. For example, in the case of
http://www.coralseastudios.com , my name, Robert Morein, was once featured
as
an "endorsement."

From the current version of the website:

IPO ALLOCATIONS NOW UNDERWAY
U.S. BASED BROKERS:
SEC FORM 6 - FAX TO: (270) 812-2208
(phone # to small town in Kentucky has no geographic local in U.S.)
INTERNATIONAL BROKER/DEALERS:
SEC FORM 6 (or equivalent) FAX TO: +852 3015-2696
(PLEASE DON'T FORGET INT'L SEC APPROVAL NUMBER!!)
SIGNED AND FAXED FORM 6'S MUST BE RECEIVED IN ORDER TO GUARANTEE ALLOCATION.
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS EXCITING OPPORTUNITY!
54% SUBSCRIBED AS OF FEBRUARY 13, 2004
(not true)
WORLDJAZZ ADDS STAFF!
JAZZ-SAVVY EXECS CONTINUE TO
OFFER THEIR SKILLS TO WORLDJAZZ!
DR. KRISHNA MAHBREN Named as CEO of WorldJAZZ
(nonexistent person)
RON "GROOVE" DAVIS (EX-BET/JAZZ) OPERATIONS MANAGER
(nonexistent person)
MOSCOW CENTRAL TV: Jazz programming to be supplied by WorldJAZZ to Moscow
Central Television beginning 2004 WorldJAZZ /Moscow representative Alexei
Afonin.
(nonexistent association)
TOP FOUR U.S. CABLE TV COMPANIES: Negotiations for carriage rights
currently underway with channel allocations TBA.
(bull****)
SATELLITE PANAMSAT transponder space to be confirmed shortly
(not true)
EVENT SPONSORSHIP: WorldJAZZ has been named OFFICIAL CO-SPONSOR of the 2004
Jersey Jazz Bass Festival (second year running!)
(nonexistent event)
Live broadcast planned September 22-25, 2004.

Brian L. McCarty lives at 65 Vasey Esplanade, Trinity Beach, Cairns,
Queensland, Australia.
His current website, http://www.worldjazz.com, is a farrago of lies,
fictitious
front people, and nonexistent associations. Speculation as to why McCarty
viciously attacks individuals who at the worst, might have slight
irregularities in business registrations, revolves around his suddenly
leaving the United States in the late 1990's. One rumor has it that McCarty
was about to be charged with a sex crime, and that he avoided prosecution by
leaving. It is possible McCarty paid off the victim's family.

Once in Australia, McCarty founded Coral Seas Studios, which quickly became
financially insolvent. Perhaps the major backer, ABN Amro, already detected
anomalies in McCarty's personality. Following that business failure, which
became a minor issue in the reelection of P.M. John Howard, McCarty
concentrated on funding a second initiative, "WorldJAZZ", a scheme for
Internet broadcasting. But with his reputation damaged and cut off from
legitmate business activity, McCarty's predatory tendency came more to the
fore. His website became ever more devious in an attempt to lure investors.

In 2003, notices appeared in several online publications that McCarty was
producing jazz broadcast material for Gene Parrish
(http://www.worldwidejazz.com ) Notices appeared in a publication of the
Embassy of France, and in one other publication. Mr. Parrish is a noted NPR
jazz broadcast host. When contacted, it was apparent that Parrish had never
heard of McCarty. While I cannot prove that McCarty posted these bogus
notices, he certainly had the motive to do so.

Following the exposure of the false producing notices, McCarty's name
completely vanished from the Internet. He resorted entirely to false
identities to create business partners who do not exist. As of 1/14/03, a
quick glance at http://www.worldjazz.com, discloses the following:

(Note: the following actually applies to the version of the website prior to
1/20/04, but it is relevant nevertheless:

1. Clicking on the banner "WorldJAZZ" produces an unresolved link to K1
Ventures, the largest venture capital company in Singapore. In discussion
with that company's secretary, she disavowed any connection between them and
McCarty, and was shocked at his implication that they were involved.

2. "Dr. Krishna Mahbren" is derived from a real person, Krishna Mahadoo,
V.P. of Beverly Hills Film Studios, a pink-sheet stock. McCarty cruises the
Internet for companies that don't answer the phone. McCarty made Mahadoo an
employee of that company's stock transfer agent, First American Stock
Transfer of Phoenix. When I pointed this out in a usenet post and notified
Mr. Mahdoo by mail, McCarty changed the company to "First American Stock of
Denver." Then he changed Mahadoo to Mahbren, and tacked on a "Dr." to the
phony name.

3. The claim that Moscow Central TV is to use material supplied by WorldJAZZ
is doubtful, as they were notified by mail. This claim has been made for the
better part of a year. When the date expires, McCarty simply creates a new
one.

4. "Event Sponsorship 2nd Year Running". This event does not exist. There is
no "Jersey Jazz Bass Festival." Previously, the website has exhibited a link

to the Island of Jersey in the English Channel. This locale has a surf
fishing festival, the Jersey Bass festival. There is no music festival. In
the past, association was advertised with "jazz musician" Peter Thliveros,
who is, in fact, a professional bass fisherman, not a musician.

5. The website is registered to "David Ellison", a fictitious person. In
the past, many different fictitious persons have been used, in conjunction
with yahoo mailboxes. Among McCarty's aliases, we have: Krishna Mahadoo,
Anthony Ramallo, David Ellison, David C.L. Feng, Ying Hong Huang, Lee
Hodges, Melinda Hsu, Melinda Shu, Robert Morein, Robert X Morein, Sylvan
Morein, Sylvan X Morein, et al.

6. The website morphs constantly. McCarty combs the Internet for identities
to steal. He chooses victims who do not represent themselves on the Web, and
are not easily reached by phone.

7. McCarty's other website, http://www.coralseastudios.com, has a similar
history. In the past, McCarty has actually used MY name as an endorsement,
apparently as a taunt, even though it makes extremely bad business sense.
Fortunately, Coral Seas went belly up, although the website lives on as a
zombie.

The obvious question is, if McCarty is so anxious to scam, why does he make
a constant racket under easily detectable fictitious names? It appears that
part of McCarty's mental illness is a distortion of reality. McCarty has an
obsession with the formal aspects of registering a business. To him, the "in
print" appearance is all that counts. It doesn't occur that people can
detect the reality that lies beyond. To McCarty fictitious names and posting
aliases are a real shield, just like a cat will crawl into a shopping bag to
hide.

McCarty had an early scheme for Internet radio. He claims to have sold
musical performance properties and/or a business plan to Black Entertainment
Television for $9.2M. Subsequently, he left Los Angeles. One unsubstantiated
rumor is that he left to avoid prosecution for a sex crime, presumably by
paying off the victim or family. Once in Australia, he made the acquaintance
of the brother of P.M. John Howard, who introduced him to contacts at ABN
Amro, an investment banking firm. They created a business plan for some kind
of a sound studio, still represented by the website
http://www.coralseastudios.com. After approximately a year, ABN withdrew
from partnership, but left the studio project still solvent. Some time
later, it went bankrupt or nearly so, owing $270,000 to it's employees. At
this point, Australia's entitlement law kicked in, paying the employees
monies owed them, with the exception of codirectors McCarty and Jeff Wexler.

It would appear that McCarty's enterprises failed because he has some kind
of mental imbalance, which exhibits signs of both schizophrenia and
obsessive-compulsive disorder. The impersonations which he makes of me are
a fraction of the numerous identities which he has used in the past, and
continues to use, on occasion, in the present. McCarty may actually believe
he is the person who he impersonates. Many of the identities are of
elaborate construction, taking some six months or more to take shape.
McCarty seems to have a magical belief that use of false identities provides
a shield.

But why would McCarty want to escape his own identity so badly? Speculation
centers around the possibility that he did something not socially acceptable
in Los Angeles.

Thanks for the review link Brian. I urge anyone considering this preamp go
there and read them carefully. This is one of the best preamps ever designed.


http://reviews.iwon.com/pscAudioRevi...er/PRD_118156_
1591crx.aspx

My tech competently serviced this example and verified factory specs. It
sounds sweet!

This is a choice unit with a 30 day warranty.

Apparently Brian is a "has been" audiophile suffering with mental problems
today.



b-m11.aol.com,
"Ken Drescher" wrote:

This is probably
the 10th one I've sold. It is an outstanding product.

It's the same one, sold over and over again.

Bluebook value, $65. Why? It's junk.

http://reviews.iwon.com/pscAudioRevi...er/PRD_118156_
1591crx.aspx

RIPOFF ALERT!










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Audio ShopPNow entering our 9th year of operation.P100% Customer
Satisfaction Guaranteed since 1995.

OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK VALUATION wrote in
m:

On 28/2/04 14:02, in article 20040227230241.16225.00000411@mb-
m11.aol.com,
"Ken Drescher" wrote:

This is probably
the 10th one I've sold. It is an outstanding product.

It's the same one, sold over and over again.

Bluebook value, $65. Why? It's junk.

http://reviews.iwon.com/pscAudioRevi...amplifier/PRD_
118156_
1591crx.aspx

RIPOFF ALERT!



Brian the liar has posted again.

LIAR ALERT!

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