I have posted links to Mend It Marks channel, Louis Rossmans channel, and all the other RUclips channels who support Mark or re-uploaded the video. Also a link to Hackaday article and many other websites in the description above. Big thanks to everyone for supporting Mend It Mark and watching and commenting and subscribing. **** Update: Theres a safe link to download the video in the description above **** Ive run out of room in the description (Only 5000 characters max) so I put any extra info down here... Another channel with reviews and opinions and worth a subscribe included a mention to Mend It Mark... Scientific Audiophile - ruclips.net/video/A8j5LzABKL4/видео.htmlsi=EsuvITO7Ek3oaMlG
The background details that Louis shared from MIM's email were very enlightening. The manufacturer quoted a ridiculously high price to repair his product, so the owner requested that he send it directly to MIM for repair. The manufacturer told the owner "MIM won't be able to repair it" but went ahead and shipped it to MIM. Sounds like he also told MIM he would not be able to repair it. So instead of helping, by releasing the schematic, he waited for MIM to fail. Instead, MIM successfuly repaired it by replacing a part worth less than $2. And he repaired the heavy damage done to the case. What a guy!
@@hoodoo-man Because TE would have (and did) quote a HUGE price for repair.....Also the 'in transit' excuse is voided by the video of the shite buid quality. ALSO the guy then realised that MM would do a better job than TE. Also methinks you are a TE TROLL.
I had never seen this guy's videos before. But this is one of the most engaging yet relaxing things I've ever watched. If nothing else comes out of this situation he now has a new subscriber.
A certain lady movie star did the exact same thing years ago when someone took a photo of her private mansion and she took them to court to stop them publishing the pictures, so the effect has a name now, it's called 'The Streisand Effect' Shouting STOP! STOP! very loudly, turns ALL heads in your direction!
To be fair Mark gives credit where it’s due for time and effort required to match critical components. Even if he said nothing during the course of his the rest of the repair we can use our eyes to arrive at a reasonable conclusion as to whether thing is genuinely worth it’s £25K price tag….
Yep in a way that brand did the streisand effect ... by just doing nothing they would have only this video but now even more people know about it via louis and others
Irrespective of the absurd hassle Mark got from the manufacturer, I just want to say I am absolutely blown away by his skills and craftsmanship. Really terrific stuff. These skills he has mastered over what I am sure are decades of hard work and dedication are in short supply today. He is a master of his craft, and unfortunately he is a dying breed. Much kudos to Mark for this remarkable project. Had never seen one of his videos until this one blew up, but plan to watch many more. Keep up the good work, Mark. And thanks for reposting, Nick.
Mark was very gracious in his video and didn't expressly criticize anything. 'Innocently' as you said. It is a great sound amplification design with very low signal distortion. Mark said so himself. People complained about the price and the 'home made' construction. It's actually a great amp. Not garbage at all. Just too expensive and Tom Evans' takedown are the problem.
@@leodf1 At a price of £25k even a hobbyist would be able to use some of the money for a decent mechanical construction... I probably would have put all the modules on 100x160mm cards and put them in a small card cage (half-width 19" cage). That would immediately look a lot better than what we have here, and it would likely have survived shipment.
@@Rob2 Was it really the shipping? Tom seems to be spiteful, and saying no one will be able to fix it, maybe he gave it a good slam on the ground before sending it to Mark.
It should be a big lesson for audiophiles with too much money burning a hole in their pocket. Unbelievable how much money Tom Evans is making on this unit.
I think the tantrum is what got the amp damaged 'before' the delivery guys got it to the legend that is Mend it Mark, might be purely coincidence though of course 😉. Love it when the customer gets the win, and youtubers get the credit for showing up wasters like Tom Evans for the BS sham they sell, it might be a good amp for £3,000, but £25,000 hmmmm..... Thanks to all those who re-shared the video 👏👏
Like many of Mark's viewers, I know F-All about electronics, but subscribed to his channel over 2 years ago, because he is so inspirational and entertaining. I tinker with a lot of stuff - mostly mechanical objects - and using Mark's logical approach to problem solving, I often manage to fix things I'd otherwise toss out, or send for professional repairs. Mark is a gem, and a huge inspiration to many people - including idiots like me who know zilch about electronics.
It's fairly interesting to watch for people who do know electronics too, Mark often has clever slightly unorthodox ways of approaching things that I wouldn't have thought of and that save time/effort in repairing things. I used to build and design stuff for my own use years ago, as well as repair a bunch of stuff for others more as a hobby (used to symbolically charge a sixpack of beer for the work, and then 3-5€ range mostly - whatever the components cost me).
I see Mend It Mark is getting lots of support on this video. Excellent. If they hadn't requested the take down, the word would not have spread so far. It does look like a very poor product for £20,000. Well done shipmate for uploading.
This thing costs 30.000 euros which is absolutely wild. Cheap case, cheap mechanical construction and I cannot for the love of me figure out why there are so many tantalum capacitors in there. It's very old school and these days there are much more effective solutions than just sticking a bunch of tantalum caps in there. Also, at this price I'd expect a lifetime warranty or something.
@@PedroDanielLopesFerreiraI’ve profited from them in the past, but we at least tried to give them what they paid for…. Ultra high end components and aerospace grade build quality are expensive, this is not that. This thing is clearly hobbyist level homemade… There’s no professional engineering in it at all…. What we made did function better than average, but it was more a work of art than better audio quality… I can appreciate that aspect if that’s your passion… There’s just no money in these things, the market is too small and niche… I’d rather sell a hundred million of them for $75, than 4 at $25.,000…
@robertw1871 From your perspective, I get it. What you are saying is that some people are willing to pay extra for well engineered equipment with high-grade semiconductors with very low tolerance components built as a tank, regardless of if their hears are going to pickup any difference at all. Simply put, people that just want to own nicer things. It still comes to two distinct compromises that I personally wouldn't assume myself: 1 - That gear wouldn't be replaced by newer one so often as its life cycle would be extended to several decades. You would be missing out on newer technology and improved designs that may pop up in the future. 2 - As a customer, that amount of cash can make more sense if applied in other upgrades that would make an actual difference, like the speakers. However, if it is used rarely and displayed as a piece of art, then I guess looks and reputation may overcome function.
Ah, that famous Tom Evans amp. Never heard about this company but from now on will avoid like a plague. Thank you, Tom Evans, for showing your true inner "I".
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 yes, a tax on minted conspicuous consumers is a good tax - and if TE is selling ten of these a year at 250k each he in turn is paying a useful amount of VAT and income tax to keep our hospitals and schools afloat :-)
Wow, great job. But I'm pretty sure the audiophiles will be able to hear the difference with that black nylon tie around the power inlet wires. Everyone knows black nylon wire ties sound more caramelized. White nylon ties have more open sound staging and a smoother top end....
Hello from the USA 🙂 As a retired electronics tech/repair man, who still fixes things for myself and friends... I can say with confidence that your repair skills are top tier. Best I have seen on RUclips. Love your technique for finding the shorted cap, with a thermal camera. Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this video. Best wishes for your continued success.
Streisand effect, if Mark wasn't famous until now, now he will be! hehe, GOOD! (i have been following him for the past 2 years and it is a top notch electronics content creator)
Sen this cardboard and couldn't believe it ! This is an absolute joke of a put together piece. Stuff like that is done for first build not a 20k customer product. And the rest is absolute scam as well.
I'm watching Mend It Mark's channel since he had probably 3 or 4000 subscribers. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to electronics, but I find Mark is such a unique and positive person, I enjoy his videos nonetheless. And it's clear as day even for me he's a pro in what he's doing. Seeing the support he gets after that ridiculous copyright claim warms my heart because I can't think of anybody deserving it more than he does.
Great job Mark, your care and attention is second to none. No-one else would take the time and energy to go the extra mile. Nothing here is copyrightable.
Can't stop an owner of electronics from getting it repaired, can't shield a creator from well deserved embarrassment when everyone sees what a shlock operation he has.
I wonder how many times I will watch this, I usually watch Marks videos several times and currently really enjoying each re-upload of this one. Thank you for this and let’s hope they keep coming.
Thanks for the re-post. Now off to watch another video by Mark. The Funny thing is that without the copyright strike, I would never have found Mark’s channel.
It's a terribly (and cheaply) put together unit made from easily purchased off the shelf components, and made recreating a fairly commonly used design. The erasing of part numbers of the components is really just hiding how cheap they are rather than how incredibly revolutionary they are. The blurb on the website sounds like a mixture of delusion and pure grift. I have never seen something that poorly put together coming out of china for reference. Hopefully this little controversy will expose just how this company operates.
Totally agree. For 25k, I'd expect thick, gold plated circuit board, nicer standoffs, no fabricobbled stuff like 8 copper wires holding a daughterboard, nevermind the cable management or lack thereof. Seriously, for 25k, you could build a really, really nice unit. Doesn't change the tech much, but let's face it, audiophiles are not all about the tech. Picture a clear perspex cover, a matte black PCB with gold coating, well laid out white silkscreen, channels for wire routing machined into the base/sides to keep everything clutter free, maybe do it motherboard style, with the individual daughterboards standing vertical, connected via a PCI type connector. It certainly could be made to look incredibly nice, if money was no object (which it isn't, at this price point for otherwise basic parts).
The guy knows his market. He probably built one for himself and showed it to his fellow enthusiasts who were impressed by the sound quality and look of the unit. As a custom-made object, he can charge whatever people are willing to pay and I am sure no one who can afford to pay 25K for a phono preamp would every consider opening it up to look inside. It probably takes him a month to build one from scratch (which explains the limit) and if he sells 10 of them a year, he makes $250K for basically doing his hobby. Not only that, but he creates scarcity, increasing the perceived value and rarity of the unit - which is key to selling into this market.
I am surprised the manufacturer did not encase the entire thing in epoxy to make it heavier and completely unrepairable... not to mention to would have prevented most of the shipping damage in the first place
@@cburgess5294 I guess it has it's place, but to use the car analogy this Tom Evans pre-amp comes across a lot more "low volume TVR made (badly) in shed" than "low volume Zonda made (well) in shed"! There has been a lot of inflation over 20 years, but TVR would you sell a whole Speed Six car for £35k in 2004 let alone just a phono pre-amp...
Streisand anyone? This guy is top notch. I wouldn't have seen this vid if it wasn't for the copyright claim. Thanks to Tom Evans, I learned a thing or two.
@@Bassotronics Thank you for watching and supporting Mark. The outcome of all this will be so many more people will be more carefull about believing the claims of so called "Hi End - high price" manufacturers.
I design electronics for a living. There are SO many things wrong with this design, even just looking at the physical construction and layout, lack of connectors, inneffective shielding, unshielded wires, non metal cabinet, capacitor choices... The list of bad design decisions goes on forever and that is BEFORE I even knew about the actual circuits he has used. All the obvious design decisions look like they were to make the product CHEAP. Like lack of connectors, cheap wire, and dodgy copper PCB "shields" and the plastic case. If the manufacturer had spent an extra $100 on components and case this product would have been many times more professional...
The lack of connectors could be justified to some degree by minimising the contact resistance throughout all conductive paths - audiophiles love all this voodoo.
I am only a hobbyist and never I have seen so many ugly-yellow tantalum caps in one place, nor have I ever seen scratched off markings, or so many plastic standoffs...
I would concur. It seems like the performance attained by designer/builder's extreme efforts to "match everything" would likely be able to be matched simply by implementing a more robust design in the first place, coupled with proper shielding of the interconnects. I design consumer electronics, but our mass-production stuff still is required to attain performance that approaches the theoretical noise floor. And it does, while being able to be built on a surface mount line by automated equipment. Audiophile "hand built" stuff with leaded components on a two-layer PCB does not measure up.
@@theosmit6366 agreed, "matching components" is almost meaningless with modern amp designs because the large amounts of negative feedback give a really low distortion result, regardless of slight differences in component values. Back in the 1960's when an amp had 25 transistors in it, then hand picked transistors might have been justified, but not with modern IC amp designs. Over the years I have had the pleasure of repairing some really high-end audio amps from some of the world's best designers ie; Sanyo, Sony, Grundig etc and one thing you never see in those expensive amps is high density component placement (tons of parts crammed together) because it can cause coupled noise, parasitic oscillation etc. In those superb designed amps, the components are more widely separated and there are usually small tin plated shields over parts of the circuitry etc. Fixing those amps usually meant unsoldering a lot of small metal shields off the top and bottom of the PCB just to get access to the components. The first thing I noticed about the PCBs in this video is that they seem to be really high density with no close shielding (no I don't include those silly copper shields floating far about the pcb). So even at first glance, it looks like the designer has zero experience with high-end audio equipment. I couldnt even see if those copper "shields" even had a grounding wire attached...
Bravo. Thank you for re-posting this. Mark is the best tech I've ever seen. I've been doing electronics service for 50 years. I wish I had half his knowledge. The way he just goes at it is incredible.
I subscribed to MiM 2 years ago, and know NOTHING about electronics. I watch it because he is so inspirational - tackling problems with a clear head, logical pathway, and showing us mere mortals that the APPROACH to a problem is the most critical part of solving it - whether it's electronics or not. Nowhere in this video does Mark chastise Evans - he points out the facts. It's then up to the viewer to make judgements. In this manner, Mark is a consummate professional.
I built an excellent pre amp way back in the late 1960 s using 10 transistors. Great sound. Plans came in a magazine. I really appreciate and enjoy your work. Sadly I had to give up as I developed an allergy to solder resin smoke. So I watch your work with Great interest. Thanks
Just found your channel. I know nothing about electronics, but I sit transfixed watching you at work and your expertise as you bring these pieces of equipment back to life. I think £25000 for a pre amp like this is a bit of a joke. How does he sell these things? Who buys them? I believe it`s a case of the kings new coat and are sold to people with more money than sense. He tried to set you up to fail on this repair and the fact you did it must be a blow to his ego. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks for reuploading - only just come across MiM and I absolutely love it, purely I think because I haven't got a clue what he's talking about but................... crucially, it is interesting and he keeps me interested. As for this Tom Evans Garbage, which make no mistake it is, £25k for this is criminal and so, is his unfounded copyright strike. .................. 'shimmed with pieces of cardboard',,,,,,,
Thank you for watching the video and supporting Mend It Mark. Ive learnt lots of things from MIM even as someone who has been in to electronics for a very long time.
@@NickT6630 I shared this YT link in Marks video where he explains the copyright strike against him. I hope thats ok? If not i will delete the comment. Your channel may get some more exposure though, which could be good. 😀
mend it mark, in these times of obsolescence it is incredible how you do magic with your knowledge saying there is a solution or at least let's try it and you make our day! Good luck!
Brilliant. Thanks for re-uploading. I was lucky enough to watch the original upload (during the few days it was there), as well as many other of Mark's videos - excellent guy. Saw your brief video of a couple of days ago & was not at all surprised to see this here now. Thanks again.
Loving the final audiophile disco schmaltz test run. It really captures the quality of this monstrosity. The tech Mend it Mark is as skilled as he is humorous.
Electrically (on paper) it is probably an excellent sound amplification design with very low signal distortion; but the physical/mechanical engineering execution part looks like Billy built it in his garage from a kit. The reliability certainly comes into question, never mind at anywhere near that price point. Cardboard filler holding the case rigid, wow. I can see why they don't want anyone else touching them. Excellent diagnosis, repair and cleaning up the broken bits there too!
Never seen a kit that shoddily made mechanically - how many have died the same way in transit I wonder? And the screening arrangement is laughable. £25k would buy a lot of EM compliance testing...
Trevor I have so much respect for you I vow to never say a negative thing ever about any of your videos again! You are the man!!! Thank you for supporting one of the best electronic specialist on the planet! Merry Christmas Trevor!
£25,000 for some LM7812CT, LM7915CT, a few OP-amps, stock RCA jacks, and ruinous tantalum capacitors? Those "esoteric" electronic parts are sold by weight in some Guangdong back-alley or Akihabara. Puleeeze.....
Agreed. But... what else is it going to be? I've built tube amps... but I still have to go through back alleys to get the parts. Nothing magic about any of it really. I'd be interested in seeing what other manufacturers do to justify the cost.
@@shobley TE probably hand-soldered each joint, then stepped back to admire it. The 25,000 figure represents his manhours. Note that in the product literature, "only 10 such preamps are made yearly"..... we mere electronic enthusiast mortals are not in the same snake oil league, it seems😀
Don't forget that it was all hand matched, which definitely adds a day or two, maybe even a week into the production process and all the sanding off IC numbers probably adds a lot to that bill too. I don't think the circuit is bad, just not worth anywhere near 30k euros in that cheap housing.
Tom Evans also designed the Finestra preamp - a dealer said they could only use it when the taxi firm next door weren't using their two way radio as it broke through - 😂
Which reminds me of a question I had. Why is an "audiophool quality" preamp not in a metal enclosure? If plexi is so beautiful, then why not an internal shield, like a lot of gear? Sure, the blank PCBs help but it is far from perfect coverage for something that is supposedly tweaked to perfection by men with long grey beards surrounded by a host of virgins.
@@Elberto71 Yeah, pretty amazing. Evans goes through the trouble of reducing silicon noise using a summing amplifier (often used in voltage references) and yet completely ignores best practices such as what you mention, which would be all that more important in a plastic box. It would be interesting to test that P.O.S. near dimmers, mobiles and such.
@@Brannigan777 Exactly, the parallel PCB boards create a wave form which directs and intensifies the injected interference. If its used to prevent crosstalk between L and R channels, then why the one on the top? Amateur hour for sure. I've built better DIY stuff for myself in my basement.
Mark is a genius! Just watched the whole video as I had only watched the first half on Mark's channel before he had to take it down. Thanks for re-uploading it here.
I remember my school project... I built a stereo amplifier consisting of a phono pre-amp stage, tone and balance and volume controls and a 15 watt power-amp stage all built in to a cardboard box. It didnt look great but it worked well. And it cost me under a £100 to build.
@NickT6630 I did something similar, but without the pre-amp (much simpler), and a relay based input selector based on a TTL 7490 counter. It was good fun to test it all on a breadboard, made a few mistakes on the circuit boards design, but ultimately it did work and I actually used it in a dorm room for a few years until it finally blew an output stage.
Thanks for helping Mark out… Such a great guy deserves huge community support. We’ll bring as many as necessary to force the issue and get him some justice! I’m willing to fly to the dealerships with a megaphone, can’t stop us all brother! Tom messed up!
I hope that youtube will do the right thing and remove the censorship pretending to be copyright by this clown manufacturer. He should be banned from RUclips copyright infringement claims forever. 100% support for Mend it Mark, he is real and not a snake oil salesman. ❤
I'm a retired Electronics Engineer. Nice job on the repair. Hope it survived the trip back to the customer. International shipping can be tough on any kit. I hope it had a metal flight case. I''m not a fan of those nylon stand-offs. Nothing wrong with them in normal use but if the kit is dropped the tall stack can move like a tower block in an earthquake.
Mark, I reckon the manufacturer would have charged around £1000 . Going on the ridicules price they charge for the amp in the first place. Now about your video. I think you are absolutely amazing how you show step by step looking through the what and why this amp is not working. Brilliant I must say. Many thanks for a great video. Gerald
Tom Evans has been a twat towards mend it mark, but the sad fact is that a market exists for this type of gear. Some people equate price with value, and get their pleasure from feeling superior about how much they paid, rather than the actual quality or performance.
@@tommusikauswahl1066 Dude, just look at the construction. Even if the design happened to be the most genius ever, the shoddy build quality speaks volumes. I doubt that even Elon Musk would choose this amp over something way less spendy.
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark. The video belongs to Mend It Mark. I shared and re-uploaded the video like many others have. Mark might not see your comment on my channel.
thanks for reposting this and this cat is a genius, I wish I lived closer and would send him all my business! I was wondering what the hoo haa was all about and now I know. I cannot believe some snob 20k pre-preamp maker forced the original down, if I had the $$$ I sure would not spend it with them. And this whole bit about epoxying all the components to hide their values, hell, thats what all the time goes into, not engineering the circuits or layouts apparently. Thanks again to the both of ya!
@@jbwelda2934 thank you for watching and supporting Mend It Mark. Toms work is even after being in business 20 years still at the level of amateur school project level.
Glad to see the video has been reposted, MIM you did a great job repairing the amp. Now you have reversed engineered it why not release you own version but make it even better and half the price tag. I'm sure it would be a real winner.
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I have posted links to Mend It Marks channel, Louis Rossmans channel, and all the other RUclips channels who support Mark or re-uploaded the video. Also a link to Hackaday article and many other websites in the description above.
Big thanks to everyone for supporting Mend It Mark and watching and commenting and subscribing.
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Ive run out of room in the description (Only 5000 characters max) so I put any extra info down here...
Another channel with reviews and opinions and worth a subscribe included a mention to Mend It Mark...
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Class act! Thank you, Nick!
@@Eerie_98 Thank you for supporting Mend It Mark
Mrs. Streisand, I presume...
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"Right to repair" and "right to talk about the repair" go hand in hand now. Let no man put asunder.
Molto bene hai fatto una cosa molto giusta.
Mend It Mark is a national treasure. Electronics enthusiasts in the UK are lucky to have him.
Just the UK? Typical.
From the USA, can confirm jealousy we don't have Mend it Mark
In the world.
UK has Mend it Mark
Australia has EEVlog
Canada has ElectroBOOM
USA - i dont know who 😭
...and around the world!
The background details that Louis shared from MIM's email were very enlightening. The manufacturer quoted a ridiculously high price to repair his product, so the owner requested that he send it directly to MIM for repair. The manufacturer told the owner "MIM won't be able to repair it" but went ahead and shipped it to MIM. Sounds like he also told MIM he would not be able to repair it. So instead of helping, by releasing the schematic, he waited for MIM to fail. Instead, MIM successfuly repaired it by replacing a part worth less than $2. And he repaired the heavy damage done to the case. What a guy!
@@hoodoo-man Because TE would have (and did) quote a HUGE price for repair.....Also the 'in transit' excuse is voided by the video of the shite buid quality. ALSO the guy then realised that MM would do a better job than TE. Also methinks you are a TE TROLL.
@@hoodoo-manWelcome to the comments, Mr Evans
@@hoodoo-man Bought one, have you? Feeling let down are you?🤣
@@hoodoo-man i THINK THE OWNER WAS QUOTED 6000 UK POUNDS FOR THE REPAIR BY TOM
The value of the capasitor is for sure less than 2 dollars, but also less than 2 cent
Mend It Mark deserves all support he can get.
I had never seen this guy's videos before. But this is one of the most engaging yet relaxing things I've ever watched. If nothing else comes out of this situation he now has a new subscriber.
Tom Evans has done a great job ensuring that about 200,000 more people have seen this then if had just let it go...
I know, right?!! Well, no one ever said rich people were smart!
free advertisement. I never heard about their brand before.
@@sentient1640 Free advertisement for who tho? Nobody is going to buy their product from this video
A certain lady movie star did the exact same thing years ago when someone took a photo of her private mansion and she took them to court to stop them publishing the pictures, so the effect has a name now, it's called 'The Streisand Effect' Shouting STOP! STOP! very loudly, turns ALL heads in your direction!
Agreed. Most people would have seen a great discrepancy between the components and the stratospheric price.
Up yours Tom Evans
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How does that old rhyme go 'Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a sham'😂😂😂
Interesting pre amp though.
Seems like he's attained popularity using large shovels full of steaming bullshot.
Stop being silly Richard @@ludmilascoles1195
Thanks for the reupload. This amp is now famous for all the wrong reasons 😂😂
And mend it Mark is now famous for all the right reasons.
To be fair Mark gives credit where it’s due for time and effort required to match critical components. Even if he said nothing during the course of his the rest of the repair we can use our eyes to arrive at a reasonable conclusion as to whether thing is genuinely worth it’s £25K price tag….
It should be dubbed the Streisand Edition.
Yep in a way that brand did the streisand effect ... by just doing nothing they would have only this video but now even more people know about it via louis and others
@@DigitalImageStudio The Tom Evans 'Streisand' phono preamps LO, complete with industrial grade power station attached!
Irrespective of the absurd hassle Mark got from the manufacturer, I just want to say I am absolutely blown away by his skills and craftsmanship. Really terrific stuff. These skills he has mastered over what I am sure are decades of hard work and dedication are in short supply today. He is a master of his craft, and unfortunately he is a dying breed. Much kudos to Mark for this remarkable project. Had never seen one of his videos until this one blew up, but plan to watch many more. Keep up the good work, Mark. And thanks for reposting, Nick.
Thank you for watching and supporting Mark
Clearly humiliated after Mark innocently exposed what a bodge job this amp really is ! Well done for re-upload x
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark
Mark was very gracious in his video and didn't expressly criticize anything. 'Innocently' as you said. It is a great sound amplification design with very low signal distortion. Mark said so himself. People complained about the price and the 'home made' construction. It's actually a great amp. Not garbage at all. Just too expensive and Tom Evans' takedown are the problem.
@@leodf1 At a price of £25k even a hobbyist would be able to use some of the money for a decent mechanical construction...
I probably would have put all the modules on 100x160mm cards and put them in a small card cage (half-width 19" cage).
That would immediately look a lot better than what we have here, and it would likely have survived shipment.
@@Rob2 Was it really the shipping? Tom seems to be spiteful, and saying no one will be able to fix it, maybe he gave it a good slam on the ground before sending it to Mark.
It should be a big lesson for audiophiles with too much money burning a hole in their pocket. Unbelievable how much money Tom Evans is making on this unit.
Tom Evans, be good Louis is watching you. Boy did you mess up with your little temper tantrum. Thanks for the reupload Nick.
Thanks for watching and supporting 👍👍👍
Tom Evans had a Temper Tantalum. Hahaha.
@@VictorSilva-rq4kz I thought I was a master of the Dad joke, and you disavowed me of that with a Jedi master Dad joke, I doff my cap to you Sir. :D
@@VictorSilva-rq4kz lol
I think the tantrum is what got the amp damaged 'before' the delivery guys got it to the legend that is Mend it Mark, might be purely coincidence though of course 😉. Love it when the customer gets the win, and youtubers get the credit for showing up wasters like Tom Evans for the BS sham they sell, it might be a good amp for £3,000, but £25,000 hmmmm..... Thanks to all those who re-shared the video 👏👏
Thanks for re-uploading this. Mark is a terrific fellow and deserves better treatment.
Your welcome. He is excellent 👍👍👍
@@NickT6630..... and very modest 😉
@@davewise001 Indeed. An all round genuine likeable person
I watched the original before YT did the wrong thing by taking it down. Commenting here as a show of support. Thanks for reposting!
Thank you for supporting Mend It Mark
Same here. Tom Evans fucked around. Now he's gonna find out.
I love this. Copies of this video popping up in my recommendation list. Thank you guys for some Internet justice.
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark. I have posted links to other channels and sites in the description.
Like many of Mark's viewers, I know F-All about electronics, but subscribed to his channel over 2 years ago, because he is so inspirational and entertaining. I tinker with a lot of stuff - mostly mechanical objects - and using Mark's logical approach to problem solving, I often manage to fix things I'd otherwise toss out, or send for professional repairs. Mark is a gem, and a huge inspiration to many people - including idiots like me who know zilch about electronics.
It's fairly interesting to watch for people who do know electronics too, Mark often has clever slightly unorthodox ways of approaching things that I wouldn't have thought of and that save time/effort in repairing things. I used to build and design stuff for my own use years ago, as well as repair a bunch of stuff for others more as a hobby (used to symbolically charge a sixpack of beer for the work, and then 3-5€ range mostly - whatever the components cost me).
I would rather pay Mark to make me a sweet custom amp and have him sign it. That would be far superior build and sound exquisite.
I see Mend It Mark is getting lots of support on this video. Excellent. If they hadn't requested the take down, the word would not have spread so far.
It does look like a very poor product for £20,000. Well done shipmate for uploading.
Your welcome. Thanks for supporting Mark.
Manufacturers suchas DCS, Tekton etc should learn that people don't like it when they attack the little guy.
This thing costs 30.000 euros which is absolutely wild. Cheap case, cheap mechanical construction and I cannot for the love of me figure out why there are so many tantalum capacitors in there. It's very old school and these days there are much more effective solutions than just sticking a bunch of tantalum caps in there. Also, at this price I'd expect a lifetime warranty or something.
@@Drinkyoghurt Much about the design has no functional benefit. A 1970s Sony amplifier gets close with simple PCBs and discretes.
Thanks for uploading. Audiofools are notoriously litigious.
Audiofools are a different breed. I am so sorry I have a conscience that prevents me from profiting from their stupidity
@@PedroDanielLopesFerreiraI’ve profited from them in the past, but we at least tried to give them what they paid for…. Ultra high end components and aerospace grade build quality are expensive, this is not that. This thing is clearly hobbyist level homemade… There’s no professional engineering in it at all…. What we made did function better than average, but it was more a work of art than better audio quality… I can appreciate that aspect if that’s your passion… There’s just no money in these things, the market is too small and niche… I’d rather sell a hundred million of them for $75, than 4 at $25.,000…
@robertw1871 From your perspective, I get it. What you are saying is that some people are willing to pay extra for well engineered equipment with high-grade semiconductors with very low tolerance components built as a tank, regardless of if their hears are going to pickup any difference at all. Simply put, people that just want to own nicer things.
It still comes to two distinct compromises that I personally wouldn't assume myself:
1 - That gear wouldn't be replaced by newer one so often as its life cycle would be extended to several decades. You would be missing out on newer technology and improved designs that may pop up in the future.
2 - As a customer, that amount of cash can make more sense if applied in other upgrades that would make an actual difference, like the speakers.
However, if it is used rarely and displayed as a piece of art, then I guess looks and reputation may overcome function.
Ah, that famous Tom Evans amp. Never heard about this company but from now on will avoid like a plague. Thank you, Tom Evans, for showing your true inner "I".
Its ironic that Tom Evans has ripped off the Intel logo but is precious about Mend it Mark's video.
Typical conman behaviour. but in his favor, he's ripping off people that have more money than they could ever spend.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 yes, a tax on minted conspicuous consumers is a good tax - and if TE is selling ten of these a year at 250k each he in turn is paying a useful amount of VAT and income tax to keep our hospitals and schools afloat :-)
Perhaps we should complain to Intel that were were confused as we thought it had their product in it! 😇
Wow, great job. But I'm pretty sure the audiophiles will be able to hear the difference with that black nylon tie around the power inlet wires. Everyone knows black nylon wire ties sound more caramelized. White nylon ties have more open sound staging and a smoother top end....
😂
And the plastic standoffs have much less capacitance than metal ones.
Brilliant!
But what about all the other colours available ? We need to know!
(My money's on waxed string)
@@theelmonk Waxed string - good enough for the Apollo missions, good enough for me.
Hello from the USA 🙂
As a retired electronics tech/repair man, who still fixes things for myself and friends...
I can say with confidence that your repair skills are top tier. Best I have seen on RUclips.
Love your technique for finding the shorted cap, with a thermal camera. Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing this video. Best wishes for your continued success.
Thanks for reposting it, never heard of Mend It Mark before Louis Rossmann’s video about it, and it’s so great to see other RUclipsrs supporting him.
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark.
Streisand effect, if Mark wasn't famous until now, now he will be! hehe, GOOD! (i have been following him for the past 2 years and it is a top notch electronics content creator)
he had just reached 100k subs when the video was taken down. now he has 120K. winning!
@@DavidFRhodes He's already very active in his MiM community, via his website.
Love to see all these other channels reuploading this and supporting Mend It Mark!
Glad I watched the whole thing, so I know where the cardboard went!!
Expertly matched cardboard for a wider soundstage.... lol
Only the finest audiophile cardboard 😂😂😂
Sen this cardboard and couldn't believe it ! This is an absolute joke of a put together piece. Stuff like that is done for first build not a 20k customer product. And the rest is absolute scam as well.
I'm watching Mend It Mark's channel since he had probably 3 or 4000 subscribers. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to electronics, but I find Mark is such a unique and positive person, I enjoy his videos nonetheless. And it's clear as day even for me he's a pro in what he's doing. Seeing the support he gets after that ridiculous copyright claim warms my heart because I can't think of anybody deserving it more than he does.
Great job Mark, your care and attention is second to none. No-one else would take the time and energy to go the extra mile. Nothing here is copyrightable.
Can't stop an owner of electronics from getting it repaired, can't shield a creator from well deserved embarrassment when everyone sees what a shlock operation he has.
I wonder how many times I will watch this, I usually watch Marks videos several times and currently really enjoying each re-upload of this one. Thank you for this and let’s hope they keep coming.
Your welcome. Ive learnt so much from watching Marks videos.
@@NickT6630 i loved this one so much so cannot thank you enough
@@searchiemusic Your welsome. Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark.
Tom Evans is going to regret his fake copyright strike
Let's hope so.
Thank you for posting this video in support of Mend It Mark and Louis Rossmann. I have been a Rossmann fan from way back.
Me too. Thank you for supporting.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MARK! I hope people continue to keep posting this everywhere. Bully gets karma and then some, time to rebrand tom! LOL
Thanks for watching and supporting Mark 🙂
Thanks for the re-post. Now off to watch another video by Mark. The Funny thing is that without the copyright strike, I would never have found Mark’s channel.
Thanks for watching :)
It's a terribly (and cheaply) put together unit made from easily purchased off the shelf components, and made recreating a fairly commonly used design. The erasing of part numbers of the components is really just hiding how cheap they are rather than how incredibly revolutionary they are. The blurb on the website sounds like a mixture of delusion and pure grift. I have never seen something that poorly put together coming out of china for reference. Hopefully this little controversy will expose just how this company operates.
Totally agree. For 25k, I'd expect thick, gold plated circuit board, nicer standoffs, no fabricobbled stuff like 8 copper wires holding a daughterboard, nevermind the cable management or lack thereof.
Seriously, for 25k, you could build a really, really nice unit. Doesn't change the tech much, but let's face it, audiophiles are not all about the tech.
Picture a clear perspex cover, a matte black PCB with gold coating, well laid out white silkscreen,
channels for wire routing machined into the base/sides to keep everything clutter free, maybe do it motherboard style, with the individual daughterboards standing vertical, connected via a PCI type connector. It certainly could be made to look incredibly nice, if money was no object (which it isn't, at this price point for otherwise basic parts).
@@sonmistful If you can see inside it, its gotta have valves.
The guy knows his market.
He probably built one for himself and showed it to his fellow enthusiasts who were impressed by the sound quality and look of the unit.
As a custom-made object, he can charge whatever people are willing to pay and I am sure no one who can afford to pay 25K for a phono preamp would every consider opening it up to look inside.
It probably takes him a month to build one from scratch (which explains the limit) and if he sells 10 of them a year, he makes $250K for basically doing his hobby. Not only that, but he creates scarcity, increasing the perceived value and rarity of the unit - which is key to selling into this market.
I am surprised the manufacturer did not encase the entire thing in epoxy to make it heavier and completely unrepairable... not to mention to would have prevented most of the shipping damage in the first place
@@cburgess5294 I guess it has it's place, but to use the car analogy this Tom Evans pre-amp comes across a lot more "low volume TVR made (badly) in shed" than "low volume Zonda made (well) in shed"!
There has been a lot of inflation over 20 years, but TVR would you sell a whole Speed Six car for £35k in 2004 let alone just a phono pre-amp...
Streisand anyone? This guy is top notch. I wouldn't have seen this vid if it wasn't for the copyright claim. Thanks to Tom Evans, I learned a thing or two.
Thanks for the upload! All sketchy companies should be held accountable for their nonsense!
@@Bassotronics Thank you for watching and supporting Mark. The outcome of all this will be so many more people will be more carefull about believing the claims of so called "Hi End - high price" manufacturers.
I design electronics for a living.
There are SO many things wrong with this design, even just looking at the physical construction and layout, lack of connectors, inneffective shielding, unshielded wires, non metal cabinet, capacitor choices...
The list of bad design decisions goes on forever and that is BEFORE I even knew about the actual circuits he has used.
All the obvious design decisions look like they were to make the product CHEAP. Like lack of connectors, cheap wire, and dodgy copper PCB "shields" and the plastic case. If the manufacturer had spent an extra $100 on components and case this product would have been many times more professional...
The lack of connectors could be justified to some degree by minimising the contact resistance throughout all conductive paths - audiophiles love all this voodoo.
I am only a hobbyist and never I have seen so many ugly-yellow tantalum caps in one place, nor have I ever seen scratched off markings, or so many plastic standoffs...
I would concur. It seems like the performance attained by designer/builder's extreme efforts to "match everything" would likely be able to be matched simply by implementing a more robust design in the first place, coupled with proper shielding of the interconnects.
I design consumer electronics, but our mass-production stuff still is required to attain performance that approaches the theoretical noise floor. And it does, while being able to be built on a surface mount line by automated equipment. Audiophile "hand built" stuff with leaded components on a two-layer PCB does not measure up.
@@theosmit6366 agreed, "matching components" is almost meaningless with modern amp designs because the large amounts of negative feedback give a really low distortion result, regardless of slight differences in component values. Back in the 1960's when an amp had 25 transistors in it, then hand picked transistors might have been justified, but not with modern IC amp designs.
Over the years I have had the pleasure of repairing some really high-end audio amps from some of the world's best designers ie; Sanyo, Sony, Grundig etc and one thing you never see in those expensive amps is high density component placement (tons of parts crammed together) because it can cause coupled noise, parasitic oscillation etc. In those superb designed amps, the components are more widely separated and there are usually small tin plated shields over parts of the circuitry etc. Fixing those amps usually meant unsoldering a lot of small metal shields off the top and bottom of the PCB just to get access to the components.
The first thing I noticed about the PCBs in this video is that they seem to be really high density with no close shielding (no I don't include those silly copper shields floating far about the pcb). So even at first glance, it looks like the designer has zero experience with high-end audio equipment.
I couldnt even see if those copper "shields" even had a grounding wire attached...
Imagine charging 25k for nylon, hot glue, perspex, and example circuits from chip manufacturers
Build quality would be far far better if he used the chip manufacturers demo boards as well!
Don’t forget cardboard 😮
@@rpb424 And not just any cardboard. The real cruddy stuff they use to package a $0.0003 part on AliBaba
Loved the dead CAP at the end. Brilliant. Oh that you were in Australia. Sigh. Mike in Oz
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Watched this originally and re-watching to support Mark. Great work as always.
It was really great of Mark to show everyone how to repair this £250 pre amp.
I'm glad to see the video back on your page! It shouldn't been taken down because you never did anything wrong!
Bravo. Thank you for re-posting this. Mark is the best tech I've ever seen. I've been doing electronics service for 50 years. I wish I had half his knowledge. The way he just goes at it is incredible.
Thank You for supporting Mark
I subscribed to MiM 2 years ago, and know NOTHING about electronics. I watch it because he is so inspirational - tackling problems with a clear head, logical pathway, and showing us mere mortals that the APPROACH to a problem is the most critical part of solving it - whether it's electronics or not. Nowhere in this video does Mark chastise Evans - he points out the facts. It's then up to the viewer to make judgements. In this manner, Mark is a consummate professional.
@@brunosmith6925 Yup.. Agree totally 👍
Thanks for supporting Mark!
Thank you too
Mastergroove gets Mark's masterclass treatment. Brilliant - thanks for posting.
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Thank you for re-uploading this excellent and informative video. And well done for being supportive of Mark who is such a decent person.
Your welcome 🙂
Keep smiling and carry on. Thanks !
Brilliant Engineer.. Plenty of skills and a good workshop. Hats off to you Mark..
I built an excellent pre amp way back in the late 1960 s using 10 transistors. Great sound. Plans came in a magazine. I really appreciate and enjoy your work. Sadly I had to give up as I developed an allergy to solder resin smoke. So I watch your work with Great interest. Thanks
Thanks for re sharing, It was mentioned to me by a friend that had watched it this morning, glad I found it.
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The most famous Preamp in the world!!
Now infamous 😂😊
Haha yes it is!
Thank you for the re-upload. Mend it Mark is a good man.
@@pauldery7875 Thank you for watching and supporting Mend It Mark.
Thank you for re upload this 25.000$ thrash. Thanks for support to Mark also. Everybody need to see this scam…
Thank you for supporting Mend It Mark also.
Well done for supporting Mark
Thanks for watching
Just found your channel. I know nothing about electronics, but I sit transfixed watching you at work and your expertise as you bring these pieces of equipment back to life. I think £25000 for a pre amp like this is a bit of a joke. How does he sell these things? Who buys them? I believe it`s a case of the kings new coat and are sold to people with more money than sense. He tried to set you up to fail on this repair and the fact you did it must be a blow to his ego. Keep the videos coming.
ITS BACK ! to watch twice ..... Thanks Tom Evans we get to see it again.
Good to see this back up! Well done Nick.
Thanks for watching
Tom Evans was outclassed and out gunned and he big mad lol
Thanks for re-posting! Hats off to Mend-It-Mark!
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark.
Thanks for reuploading - only just come across MiM and I absolutely love it, purely I think because I haven't got a clue what he's talking about but................... crucially, it is interesting and he keeps me interested. As for this Tom Evans Garbage, which make no mistake it is, £25k for this is criminal and so, is his unfounded copyright strike. .................. 'shimmed with pieces of cardboard',,,,,,,
Thank you for watching the video and supporting Mend It Mark. Ive learnt lots of things from MIM even as someone who has been in to electronics for a very long time.
@@NickT6630 Welcome pal - subb'd to you to support - looks like you got a great channel yourself mate.
@@HeliShed Thanks! I subb'd yours too as I enjoy radio controlled models a lot! I'm in to RC cars, but interested in helicopters, planes too.
@@NickT6630 sure you'll find something interesting in there pal. I try not to be too serious with it all - it is by its very nature 'serious' per se.
@HeliShed flying helictopters is rather serious but a little humour is very welcome 🙂
Thanks for uploading this NickT6630!
Your welcome 🙂
@@NickT6630 I shared this YT link in Marks video where he explains the copyright strike against him. I hope thats ok? If not i will delete the comment. Your channel may get some more exposure though, which could be good. 😀
Thanks for reuploading this and risking your channel.
RUclips should reconsider their judgment on Mark's original video .
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mend it mark, in these times of obsolescence it is incredible how you do magic with your knowledge saying there is a solution or at least let's try it and you make our day! Good luck!
Brilliant. Thanks for re-uploading. I was lucky enough to watch the original upload (during the few days it was there), as well as many other of Mark's videos - excellent guy. Saw your brief video of a couple of days ago & was not at all surprised to see this here now. Thanks again.
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Legend! Already watched this when it first came out but here to get this trending again.
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Thanks man! Hope there’s 100 more youtubers who share this.
Thanks for watching. In the description below the video I have added all the people who have shared and supported Mend it Mark.
Music by Khruangbin, props on the repair Mark 👏
Tom Evans stuff reminds me of the story of the king with no clothes.
Loving the final audiophile disco schmaltz test run. It really captures the quality of this monstrosity.
The tech Mend it Mark is as skilled as he is humorous.
Electrically (on paper) it is probably an excellent sound amplification design with very low signal distortion; but the physical/mechanical engineering execution part looks like Billy built it in his garage from a kit. The reliability certainly comes into question, never mind at anywhere near that price point. Cardboard filler holding the case rigid, wow. I can see why they don't want anyone else touching them. Excellent diagnosis, repair and cleaning up the broken bits there too!
That's not cardboard filler, that's the hyper sonic nano fiber dampning system!!! xD
The card was to stop any rattle.
Never seen a kit that shoddily made mechanically - how many have died the same way in transit I wonder? And the screening arrangement is laughable. £25k would buy a lot of EM compliance testing...
Trevor I have so much respect for you I vow to never say a negative thing ever about any of your videos again! You are the man!!! Thank you for supporting one of the best electronic specialist on the planet! Merry Christmas Trevor!
Real Skills, pleasure to watch you diagnose and thanks for documenting
Mark just found a new fan in me.
When he was getting out the polishing wheel, i was cheering for him to rub that salt deep!
£25,000 for some LM7812CT, LM7915CT, a few OP-amps, stock RCA jacks, and ruinous tantalum capacitors? Those "esoteric" electronic parts are sold by weight in some Guangdong back-alley or Akihabara. Puleeeze.....
Agreed. But... what else is it going to be? I've built tube amps... but I still have to go through back alleys to get the parts. Nothing magic about any of it really. I'd be interested in seeing what other manufacturers do to justify the cost.
@@shobley TE probably hand-soldered each joint, then stepped back to admire it. The 25,000 figure represents his manhours. Note that in the product literature, "only 10 such preamps are made yearly"..... we mere electronic enthusiast mortals are not in the same snake oil league, it seems😀
Does anyone know what the bank of dip switches are supposed to do? Are they actually connected to anything?
Don't forget that it was all hand matched, which definitely adds a day or two, maybe even a week into the production process and all the sanding off IC numbers probably adds a lot to that bill too. I don't think the circuit is bad, just not worth anywhere near 30k euros in that cheap housing.
betting the primary supply coil is the most expensive part of the4 thing by far.
Thanks for the Re-Up, although is clear why the manufacturer striked it, it's highly informative. I've leaned a lot, beside the "Don'ts"
Your welcome. Indeed its a very educational video of do's and don'ts
Streisand Effect subscriber here!
Wow. Such a great repair. Then you capped it off by bumping Khruangbin! 🤘🏽
Tom Evans also designed the Finestra preamp - a dealer said they could only use it when the taxi firm next door weren't using their two way radio as it broke through - 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Which reminds me of a question I had. Why is an "audiophool quality" preamp not in a metal enclosure? If plexi is so beautiful, then why not an internal shield, like a lot of gear? Sure, the blank PCBs help but it is far from perfect coverage for something that is supposedly tweaked to perfection by men with long grey beards surrounded by a host of virgins.
@Brannigan777 it didn't even have shielded cables inside, just crappy cables flapping in the breeze 😂
@@Elberto71 Yeah, pretty amazing. Evans goes through the trouble of reducing silicon noise using a summing amplifier (often used in voltage references) and yet completely ignores best practices such as what you mention, which would be all that more important in a plastic box. It would be interesting to test that P.O.S. near dimmers, mobiles and such.
@@Brannigan777 Exactly, the parallel PCB boards create a wave form which directs and intensifies the injected interference. If its used to prevent crosstalk between L and R channels, then why the one on the top? Amateur hour for sure. I've built better DIY stuff for myself in my basement.
Mark is a genius! Just watched the whole video as I had only watched the first half on Mark's channel before he had to take it down. Thanks for re-uploading it here.
Thanks for watching and supporting
Ogni frase o descrizione del ampli.é una pugnatata.Bravo.
Mr Evans didn't expect this, did he?
100 quid school project dissected.
I remember my school project... I built a stereo amplifier consisting of a phono pre-amp stage, tone and balance and volume controls and a 15 watt power-amp stage all built in to a cardboard box. It didnt look great but it worked well. And it cost me under a £100 to build.
@@NickT6630 You missed a trick there, you could have shifted them for 25k a throw! 😉
@@ramalama9650 😂😂😂
@NickT6630 I did something similar, but without the pre-amp (much simpler), and a relay based input selector based on a TTL 7490 counter. It was good fun to test it all on a breadboard, made a few mistakes on the circuit boards design, but ultimately it did work and I actually used it in a dorm room for a few years until it finally blew an output stage.
That much!!! :-O
Thanks for helping Mark out… Such a great guy deserves huge community support. We’ll bring as many as necessary to force the issue and get him some justice! I’m willing to fly to the dealerships with a megaphone, can’t stop us all brother! Tom messed up!
Thank you also for supporting Mark. We are stronger together.
I hope that youtube will do the right thing and remove the censorship pretending to be copyright by this clown manufacturer. He should be banned from RUclips copyright infringement claims forever. 100% support for Mend it Mark, he is real and not a snake oil salesman. ❤
RUclips is renowned for never doing the right thing.
RUclips apparently told Mark that he would have to get his own lawyer and deal with the copyright claim directly with Tom Evans.
@@tux1968Louis Rossmann picked up on the video and offered to take on the legal case.
@@NickT6630 Yes. Louis promised to post the video, as a challenge to Tom Evans. But still hasn't posted it yet.
"Has that homemade feel to it." LOL
@@CatFish107 home made feel that should never have been considered ready for selling at £25,000
Mark is an absolutely stellar man, thanks for reposting the video
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I'm a retired Electronics Engineer. Nice job on the repair. Hope it survived the trip back to the customer. International shipping can be tough on any kit. I hope it had a metal flight case. I''m not a fan of those nylon stand-offs. Nothing wrong with them in normal use but if the kit is dropped the tall stack can move like a tower block in an earthquake.
Absolutely brilliant what Mark can do, he certainly knows his trade and he is such a nice chap. Shame on Tom Evans
Mark, I reckon the manufacturer would have charged around £1000 . Going on the ridicules price they charge for the amp in the first place. Now about your video. I think you are absolutely amazing how you show step by step looking through the what and why this amp is not working. Brilliant I must say. Many thanks for a great video. Gerald
Thanks for watching and supporting Mark. You should post your comment on Mend It Marks video as he might not see it here.
Tom Evans has been a twat towards mend it mark, but the sad fact is that a market exists for this type of gear. Some people equate price with value, and get their pleasure from feeling superior about how much they paid, rather than the actual quality or performance.
And we call these people as they call themselves -- audiophiles.
"The price _is_ the product."
@@richardgray8593 The rest calls them audioidiots, or wait, audiodumbasses? No...think it was audiofools.
Are you really able to judge the Quality of this Pre Amp? Or just the ordinary jealous Troll?
@@tommusikauswahl1066 Dude, just look at the construction. Even if the design happened to be the most genius ever, the shoddy build quality speaks volumes. I doubt that even Elon Musk would choose this amp over something way less spendy.
I hope this clever, patient dude makes good money
Absolutely brilliant repair job.
thank you for putting it back on Mark Have a great Christmas and thanks for the video
Thanks for watching and supporting Mend It Mark. The video belongs to Mend It Mark. I shared and re-uploaded the video like many others have. Mark might not see your comment on my channel.
@@NickT6630 ok, i must concentrate more when reading but thanks for letting me know
Happy to see many are reposting this video.
Watched this before, love this guy. He is a really clever electronics person.
This needs to be reposted ad infinitum to the eternal shame of that charlatan Evans
So happy this is getting attention. Mark doesn’t deserve any of what’s happening.
Thank you for this comprehensive list of re-uploads. I will have my phone play these in order and in full! while I factorio.
Awesome! Thank you for watching and supporting Mend It Mark 👍
Love how everyone has started re-uploading this. Streisand effect going to be renamed Evans effect soon.
I am very glad that this video is back on RUclips. I saw Louis Rossman's video on this too.
Thanks for watching and your support :)
thanks for reposting this and this cat is a genius, I wish I lived closer and would send him all my business! I was wondering what the hoo haa was all about and now I know. I cannot believe some snob 20k pre-preamp maker forced the original down, if I had the $$$ I sure would not spend it with them. And this whole bit about epoxying all the components to hide their values, hell, thats what all the time goes into, not engineering the circuits or layouts apparently. Thanks again to the both of ya!
@@jbwelda2934 thank you for watching and supporting Mend It Mark. Toms work is even after being in business 20 years still at the level of amateur school project level.
Glad to see the video has been reposted, MIM you did a great job repairing the amp. Now you have reversed engineered it why not release you own version but make it even better and half the price tag. I'm sure it would be a real winner.
Thanks for doing this, Nick.
Your welcome. Thanks for for watching and supporting Mend It Mark.