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Real Standup Men Audiogon Members to the Rescue

For those of you who have not heard, we intended to launch the new Tenor 300 watt monoblocks this year at CES and unfortunately, one of the 300 watt mono prototypes and one of the 75 watt integrated amps were stolen off of a palette containing 6 crates. The amps are useless to anyone unless they are looking to drive a center channel or are into 1 channel audio.

The new prototypes were to be used with the Kharma Midi Grands and the 75's were to go into the Rockport Antares room. We were without product for either of these rooms. Wednesday, late morning, I called Mike Lavigne (mikelavigne) and Dale Ediger (Oakrow), my very good friends and both loyal Tenor owners and told them what occurred. Both of them left work and went home where they proceeded to crate their amplifiers and send them to us in Vegas via same day service.

When you see pictures of the Tenor/Kharma room and the Tenor/Rockport room, you are looking at Mike and Dale's personal amplifiers.

Needless to say, they saved the show for us. I cannot thank them enough and they both have my eternal gratitude for their generousity and thoughtfulness.

You guys are THE BEST!!!

Thanks from:

Jonathan Tinn
Kharma Loudspeakers
Rockport Technologies
Tenor Audio
jtinn
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
A heartwarming story for sure. I do hope you get your stolen goods back, particularly the prototype - that must be quite a setback to have lost. Very best of luck. I'm sure your misfortune will at least serve as a valuable lesson for all other exhibitors in the future (make sure someone stays with your product all the time, the whole way in).
ucmgr
173 posts
 
Those of you that know Jonathan and how well he represents his industry and his customers would understand why guys like Mike and Dale willingly came to his rescue. I've never had the pleasure of meeting any of them in person, but I am a customer of Jonathan's and have spoken with Mike a number of times and all I can say is that one gets the feeling when dealing with Jonathan that you become part of the family and family will always be there when you need them.
toomuchstuff
20 posts
 
That's what makes it all worth while, your friends.
fmpnd
481 posts
 
Faster than a speeding Halcro amplifier, more powerful than a pair of Pass X-1000s, able to leap tall SoundLabs in a single bound!!! . . . . and who, disguised as mikelavigne, mild mannered Sirius III D.J. (and Honda purveyor) fights a never ending battle for harmonic truth, Tenor justice and the American audiophile way!!!! It was a pleasure meeting you finally Mike!! You and Jonathan have not only been two of the most helpful people around, but you guys are just plain fun to be around. Way to go buddy, my hat's off to you and Dale for rescuing the audio damsels in distress - class acts all the way!!

Jonathan (the often imitated and never duplicted cruise director and phone conferencing wizard), Mike (a/k/a "Superaudiophile), Bills (both Eichengrun [pass the Armegnac please] and Parrish), Paul (Bill's cool son), Mark (you be da way kewl doctor - Noah Wyle eat yer heart out), Francois, Robert, Stephan and Michelle (the swarthy Tenor clan), Patrick (United We Stand), Andy and Mike (the laid back geniuses of the Rockport Empire - "Can I hear some Kenny G?" NOT!), thanks a ton for making CES so darn much fun (in spite of the bug that invaded my sickly body!)

I hope you all made it home safe and healthy!!

Frank

PS - those new Tenors are as physically beautiful as the 75 watters are musically beautiful!!!!
cyrus
44 posts
 
If you have ever met Jonathan, you can easily understand why Michael and Dale stepped up. You do get the feeling that once you have dealt with him you do become part of the family. Nice thread Frank.
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