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In Reply to: $1500 seems like a frightful amount posted by Kristian85 on June 4, 2004 at 09:20:01:
Hello,The mod consists of $1000.00 in parts. My parts margin is only 35%. I primarily do only the R&D of the mod package thus the dedicated installer(Reference Audio mods East) Doug Jesse has $500.00 to make a profit. I approximate The Mod install for Doug(Very Experienced) will take 8-10 hours minimum. Every connection within in the amp is point to point. Each end of the internal silver wire must be stripped of the enamel and then melted with a torch to a ball to sleeve the cotton around it. All Caps are mounted to and glued to wood as well as all plastic being removed. Discrete regulators are mounted to small wood blocks and again P-t-P wired to the PCB. This quite frankly, is a tremendous amount of work. One must realize as well, the time spent e-mailing or phoning back and forth in order to finalize the sale...it's all time. Then the risk of making a mistake never eludes even the most skilled technician...The risk of having to buy a new amp...Ouch!!
So $1500 as frightful...Nah... More like a good value.Best Regards,
Kyle Takenaga
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