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In the Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems
Post Subject: He’s no mental qualification to do more then shallow work.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/31/2009
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 scooter wrote:
Sorry about that.  Vince has good days and bad days; sometimes he just does not get it and you did correct by running out.  Given his background in 80s solid state amps and your interesting piece of gear I thought he would have been quite motivated to provide you some creative solutions, rather than to (unsuccessfully) insult your intelligence.  Apologies for any inconvenience once again.  

There is nothing to be sorry. I do not make judgment about his good or bad days. Vince’s inability to focus and too keep his attraction on one subject more than 10 seconds is not what bothered me. He might be motivated to provide “creative” solutions but sorry to say it he was absolutely ignorant what he was saying. 90% of time he spent to convince me that he is a geniuses bit this is a common illness among those people…

I approached Vince with idea to let him to service my B2 but was enthusiastic that Vince informed me that he alight the tuners and that he is the “best I ever seen”. Sure! I stopped by today at his place with my Rohde & Schwarzes, asking him just to diagnose it and to give me a feedback what he sees. I was staying behind him and seeing what he is doing and what he was saying my heart was trembling.

He hit the tuner with his hand!!! He told me some absolutely idiotic stories about Rohde & Schwarz then admitting the he never dealt or even heard the R&S before. He informed me that he needs to replace electrolytic capacitors in frond end of my tuner! The electrolytic capacitors in frond end!!! He opened the cover and be quite violently touched the front-end. I was so closed to ask his do not touch my tuner anymore!

He did not have sweep generator in fact he does not use it for the tuners alignment. He blew the R&S with FM signal, looks at the scope the composite output and he said that it is all that he need to align tuners. I did not believe what I was hearing – he is completely clueless what he was saying. The fact that my R&S picked his 100Mhz signal at 99.95Mhz and his generator was not properly calibrated (he admitted it) seemed did not bother him. I was ready to walk but then he proposed to get more sensitivity. I mean to get right now while I was weighing. It was too good to be true and I informed him that I have 3 technicians (very good technicians) who were not able to work on R&S as they found it design too intimidating for ad-hog tuning. It did not stop his and the master started his “magic”.

The Moron, without looking at the schematics that I had with me took a screwdriver and begin to turn the adjustable pots and coil, trying to see on the scope (!) higher amplitude of output signal. I immediately asked him do not do anything else with the tuner. I pointed him at the pots and the coils that he had touched and asked him if he know what they are or at least in what stage they are located. He had no idea where they were but the mothefaker already trying to turn them!!! I give him a circuit and was suspecting that he we will try to find out what he turned but he begin to ma11ke superbly superficial comments about the circuit from which I concluded the he just did not understand what he was talking about or is accustomed that his customers have no idea what they are getting and how it was done.

He might be a great technician of his mind but he is well underqualified to serve my equipment and he serially shall not touch any RF equipment. Perhaps if I have a broken electronic alarm clock than I might give it to him, with anything ease I would not be risking. He has no knowledge, obvious the experience or mental qualification to serve audio at the level I demand.

The Cat

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