if u decide to go down the mod road, where you buy expensive caps and such from plays in a big part in deciding if this journey will be a pleasant or nighmarish one.
try to buy locally, or through ebay or aliexpress, e.g. rather than from a seller directly (no mediating body) online.
my recent totally bad experience with the arrogant and obnoxious HIFICOLLECTIVE in the UK illustrates this :
first their website can't process my order, despite numerous attempts. no apologies from seller.
then the very ethical sellers ask for your credit card number over phone
you refuse. when website gets fixed (this one issue anyway, their site has several other issues, i learned later) they wont inform you. you gotta keep asking.
asking them advice gets you curt replies and then radio silence, they went on holiday without telling you.
you finally order from them but their website screws up your address (can't do auto-fill unlike professional websites like ebay or aliexpress) so the parcel never gets to you, but returned to seller - TWICE, geniuses keep sending it back to me despite knowing the address is wrong.
seller will not refund and blames you for screwing up the order. lies about not receiving the parcel.
finally after sending many angry emails to seller, and threatening legal action, seller relents and refunds u but MINUS $45 for the shipping back and forth which was ENTIRELY THEIR FAULT
so perhaps you spend a grand or 2 at a time every time you order from hificollective, and get treated like royalty, but if not my advice is dont buy from sellers like HIFICOLLECTIVE, UK
arrogant unrepentantselfish pricks crooks
oh yes, and fwiw, for beginners like me, do try NOS capacitors first, they sound as good as mundorf/jensen/duelund etc
at fraction of the costs, imo!
try to buy locally, or through ebay or aliexpress, e.g. rather than from a seller directly (no mediating body) online.
my recent totally bad experience with the arrogant and obnoxious HIFICOLLECTIVE in the UK illustrates this :
first their website can't process my order, despite numerous attempts. no apologies from seller.
then the very ethical sellers ask for your credit card number over phone
you refuse. when website gets fixed (this one issue anyway, their site has several other issues, i learned later) they wont inform you. you gotta keep asking.
asking them advice gets you curt replies and then radio silence, they went on holiday without telling you.
you finally order from them but their website screws up your address (can't do auto-fill unlike professional websites like ebay or aliexpress) so the parcel never gets to you, but returned to seller - TWICE, geniuses keep sending it back to me despite knowing the address is wrong.
seller will not refund and blames you for screwing up the order. lies about not receiving the parcel.
finally after sending many angry emails to seller, and threatening legal action, seller relents and refunds u but MINUS $45 for the shipping back and forth which was ENTIRELY THEIR FAULT
so perhaps you spend a grand or 2 at a time every time you order from hificollective, and get treated like royalty, but if not my advice is dont buy from sellers like HIFICOLLECTIVE, UK
arrogant unrepentant
oh yes, and fwiw, for beginners like me, do try NOS capacitors first, they sound as good as mundorf/jensen/duelund etc
at fraction of the costs, imo!
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