Recently my absolare inti. came back to me.
3rd July, my son spreaded water to my amp. When I turn it on I could hear noisy.
That day, I sent it to my korean dealer.
After a week, they said it works well even there was some oil overflow from capacitors.
I requested to send it with my telefucken tubes to absolare in US, I thought just replacing capacotors.
After absolare checked it, they said there were some crossion at 30% of pre part and 70% of power amplifier part, even power block and others were ok. The repairing cost was too high, they suggested me to upgrade from passion to signiture.
I was much surprised. If their validation was true, their suggestion was reasonable.
But it overed my budget. Because I had expected just replacing caps.
I'm an engineer also, I couldn't believe the water made the corrosion, theoretically possible, but not happen in real.
I asked several things and requested to discount.
Then Absolare suddenly cut off direct connection with me, I had to talk to them through korean dealer.
I requested the detail of corrosion and pictures, but finally I couldn't get anything.
After some months, I got the money to upgrade and sent it.
I could get signature inti at the end of Oct.
But I could hear noise at R-channel and some volume control trouble.
I asked it to my dealer then they asked it to absolare, they said to check my tube eventhough they already confirmed the tube was ok.
After several trials with my tube and original rt-tube, all failed. So I re-sent it to my korean dealer.
They checked it by themselves and foun d out the volume has failed. then replaced it.
When they checked it, one guy heard some strange noise at R-channel after 2-days burning.
They rechecked it again, but couldn't find out any reason. the aging 1-week, it was ok.
It returned to me in Dec.
At same time absolare sent me tubes one of Ten's 12bh7 and one of NEC's channel master.
They commented that those were very special SQ and apply it each input(left) and output(right).
Input & output? why not Left & Right? Is it possible to use different tubes for L & R ?
I was so confused and asked it. But Absolare does not answered anything again.
Anyway I applied it as their comment, its SQ was really better than their original RT tubes.
Similar nuance but much more clear, focusing, dynamic and musical. But it has an audible white noise at R-channel.
Untill this time all problem was happend at R-chnnel, I was restless.
After some weeks, from mid of Jan, after burning, the white noise was gone, and it works well without any of strange symptom.
I'm not sure how signature is better than passion, because there were so many issues for 6~7 months.
Anyway, now, every thing is OK.
I think absolare is enough good as a inti-amplifier. And they worked well officialy. But not well humanly.
Accident would be happened to anyone. Man is easy to get angry, sad, .... in front of any accident.
In this article, I hope to apologyze to Absolare if I was too nervous or rude.
But If they had tried to understand me more and did not ignore small korean, it would be better.