Uber expensive repair at United Radio

They provided an estimate which you agreed to and now you are complaining about the cost? 

@testpilot 
So in my situation, you would have just  shut your mouth and bit the bullet? Not my style. I just find that replacing two 16 pins chipsets + calibration and using 14 hours of labor is unjustified.

I called Classé Audio customer support to enquire their repair process. They indicated me to ship my amp to their repair center, but never told me that United Audio was a subcontractor.

My options:

1) Pay over $2,000 in repair cost and keep my $6,000 monoblocks 
2) Refuse the repair estimate and try to find a repair shop which has Classé Audio CA-M600 schematics, parts and repair expertise?
3) Sell the remaining functional monoblock amp and take a $3000 loss since I purchase the pair last year?

Well then make a choice and live with it.

dasign OP171 posts05-25-2021 5:39amMy options:

1) Pay over $2,000 in repair cost and keep my $6,000 monoblocks
2) Refuse the repair estimate and try to find a repair shop which has Classé Audio CA-M600 schematics, parts and repair expertise?
3) Sell the remaining functional monoblock amp and take a $3000 loss since I purchase the pair last year?

Yes, your options, and you made your choice. No one else did. Poor form to whine about it now. Skilled labor is expensive. So is maintaining a brick and mortar business.

My two bits. 
I had my Mac 240 refurbished by Ryan at Audio Classics and it was worth every penny. Not quite the $1900 of the OP, but it wasn't cheap either. I fiddle around and refurbish old Triumph cars, NOS and reissue parts are very reasonable compared to some better HiFi. But i guess my point or correlation is that after all is said and done, one has a valuable and cherished item that will last another 50 years.