Vidar HoelHah, what I great deal :-) I bet you feel good now! And thanks for the tip about music from "Koan". Great music and high quality. Must be played loud! If you know about similar music, please say so.
New Noise
You’ve all probably read the Noise entry and now you’re wondering how I did in the search for a new amplifier. OK, so you’re not, but I’ll still tell you about it.
Me and Anniken took the old amplifier down to Hi-Fi Klubben, where I bought it. Taking the amplifier with us was a last minute thing, I knew it was at least two years old and figured that the repairs would not covered by the store when the amplifier was that old. But I’m very happy we did take it with us, because it turned out that the store is required by law to cover repairs for five years, not two, like I thought.
The very helpful staff in the store confirmed that they also heard the static noise in the right front speaker, concluded that repairing the amplifier would be more expensive than to actually give me a brand new one. So they picked up a Denon AVR-1611 from their storage room and simple gave it to me, no charge.
On top of this I got an additional five years the store-have-to-pay-for-repairs on the new Denon. That was probably the most surprising thing about it all and if this continues I’ll never have to buy a new amplifier ever again. I just have to hope they all go tits up every four years.
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Vidar Hoel
Yeah, it’s a very different outcome than from the iBomb incident. I haven’t had the chance to listen to Koan yet, but will give it a try later. All hail Spotify!
KristofferScore! Congrats on a new amp, and good to hear Hi-Fi-klubben are serviceminded people. :)
I’m not sure if it was so much being service minded as being required by law to fix the old amp and the economics of repairing it vs replacing it. But the people at Hi-Fi Klubben sure knows what they are talking about, and that’s why I keep returning whenever I need anything hi-fi-ish.
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