Louis Rossmann takes on Tom Evans Audio over $25,000 phono preamp

[jinjuku]

Another repair shop reverse engineers a circuit on their YT channel due to Tom wanting $6000 to repair a piece of junk.
Tom Evans Audio gets YouTube to be their goon and issues a copy right violation.

Louis Rossmann is having none of it. Enjoy:

 

[Eppie]

I follow Mend It Mark on a regular basis. Fabulous repair tech that even does his own metal work for mechanical repairs. I saw the original video when it was posted. The copyright strike made no sense. The only schematics he showed were the IC manufacturer's sample circuit design for the op-amps. He created his own service manual for the pre-amp, but never showed the contents. He did show that the pre-amp had some dodgy plastic stand-offs that broke in shipping, which should not happen on a £25,000 pre-amp.

There are no super expensive parts in the pre-amp. The cost is mostly labour as the parts are hand selected and matched to very tight tolerances. Not that I think any pre-amp in the world is worth that much money. Not even TLS Guy's pre-amp, which can be fine tuned for each record label of the era, cost that much money. Tom has just earned himself a whole lot of disrespect in the community.

It's hilarious what Rossman is doing and he's not alone. Mark's video is showing up on other YT channels as well. As Rossman has said before, you can't delete anything completely from the internet.

 

[MrBoat]

To the man in the video. . . WALK AWAY FROM THE REDBULL.

I've grown tired of YT drama and much of what's on it, these days. Then there's those who comment on mainstream media clips who falsely sensationalize the titles that has me looking at the channel name to see if it's legit or just some wanker sucking off of other people's work. I used to like Scotty Kilmer's auto repair channel and now he too, sensationalizes fake drama to get hits, so now he's bounced, too. I hate being hoodwinked into viewing videos. It's not my fault that 90 other people are hawking and reviewing the same products with pretty much the exact same information.

The algorithm was loading me up with audio related channels until it started inundating me with GR Research modifying popular speaker designs (as if) and cheapaudioman's unruly mug on every page.

I still like watching YT videos but follow or subscribe to very few, with so many copycats clogging the search results pages now, not to mention the token groveling for the "please like and subscribe" spiel that has to be added because we may miss that somehow.