A comment about the distributor ASL - I have a lot of Arcam gear, purchased mostly from a local dealer and a little on Agon. I had a modification performed through the local dealer that didn't come out right, and was very slow (the repair shops fault, not the dealers) to be finished. I sent an e-mail to ASL complaining about the slow service of the repair shop and copied my local dealer. Never heard anything back from ASL. When it turned out the DAC had been damaged by accident during the modification and would have to be shipped back to England for repair of the DAC (factory repair only for the dcs DAC), I sent another complaint to ASL about the "Factory Authorized Service Facility". The guy at ASL came up with a replacement DAC and promptly shipped it to the repair shop. Maybe saved me a couple of months waiting for a DAC repair.
What's funny, ASL never acknowledged my message or that they had shipped the new DAC to the repair shop. My local dealer found out while he was following up.
So, while I wouldn't consider the service from ASL to be all warm and fuzzy personal stuff, in the end, they have supported the gear very well.
Also - Arcam's factory technical support, accessed from the website, has been very prompt and effective for me. Answered multiple questions the next day and right to the point. This is how you do this - no, you can't do that, etc. Even answered my follow up questions the same day. Very helpful and probably a good way to get your questions answered.
Jim S.
What's funny, ASL never acknowledged my message or that they had shipped the new DAC to the repair shop. My local dealer found out while he was following up.
So, while I wouldn't consider the service from ASL to be all warm and fuzzy personal stuff, in the end, they have supported the gear very well.
Also - Arcam's factory technical support, accessed from the website, has been very prompt and effective for me. Answered multiple questions the next day and right to the point. This is how you do this - no, you can't do that, etc. Even answered my follow up questions the same day. Very helpful and probably a good way to get your questions answered.
Jim S.