Believe it or not, my 750-NMs, RSC200-NM, RSS-300's, and twin UFW-10's have been working flawlessly since day one. All will be about seven years old this Christmas... But I do know they had more quality problems starting a few years after that...
All of those were built by SAC back before AV123 ran up a big debt, and the front three have hand-made upgraded crossover networks made by a third party. The UFW-10's were likely part of the first batch built, which means they pre-date the batch of bad amps that generated such turmoil between SAC, Jade Design, and AV123. It's a good collection of equipment, but not representative of what AV123 has offered for sale in more recent years. Also, if they will be seven years old this Christmas, they were all purchased about 10 months before the first raffle - the Ballet Nouveau fund-raiser that Mark used to line his own pocket and kicked off the subsequent years of raffle theft.
It's a real shame all that's transpired...
Regardless of what happens today, I do still enjoy my home theater...
..dane
The physical objects in your home - MDF, veneer, drivers, wires, capacitors, resistors, and so forth - will not be changed by a court judgment anymore than they were changed by the earlier indictment or the even earlier misdeeds that led to the indictment. They work and you like them, and that will still be true this evening.
On the other hand, any G2 Rockets that get built (assuming any are built and sold to consumers) can't make the same claim, as the potential for Mark's misdeeds and AV123's poor business practices to impact the final quality of such speakers is almost absolute. It's the same thing that was seen with the MFW-15, the LS speakers, the BMF, the X-Plosive, the RSL-II, and the X electronics line. All of those were less than they could have been because AV123 took shortcuts to save money (including saving money on design fees by not paying designers), and many were left stranded on the drawing board as a result of those shortcuts.
