Gazjam
16-12-2024, 18:06
YouTube Audio repair guy "Mend It Mark" (Great YouTube channel and worth a watch) https://www.youtube.com/MendItMark was recently given a Tom Evans MasterGroove III phono Preamp to repair, the unit costing £25,000.
In his usual style,
Mark gives a step by step teardown and repair in his video, he did his thing, repaired it and that was the end of the Video.
Tom Evans wasn't happy he had done this, and filed a Copyright claim with YouTube and the video was taken down.
Never said Copyright of WHAT, just made the accusation and by default YouTube took his side.
Mark never dissed the Product, made a judgement on it, the only thing he did was highlight the Manufacturers blurb on the Website, and how the circuit designs were familiar to him, and anyone who can read datasheets.
Also pointed out that Part Numbers had been sanded off Op Amps etc, which made it a difficult repair.
Mark reverse engineered the amp and wrote his own service manual to enable him to fix it, really clever stuff.
Anyhoo,
The video was asked to be taken down from YouTube by Tom Evans claiming breach of Copyright, it was and Tom Evans probably thought that was that.
Quite the opposite happened!
Given the recent case of another Hifi YouTuber "Goldensound" being given a Cease and Decist by DCS for his honest review of their Bartok Dac, this was picked up by several other Audio YouTube'rs and they re-uploaded Mark's video on the Tom Evans amp on their own Channel! :D
Heres the Video here, perhaps you'll see why Tom Evans was unhappy there was a teardown of his £25K phono preamp, you be the judge.
https://youtu.be/uJ35ufUh2Tw?si=x-CkE7j4Da7V1krG
There is a bit of pushback against Manufacturers "coming it", and this has picked up a lot of Traction.
Also about the nature of YouTube's Guilty till proven Innocent policy, and when people targetted pushed back, they have won in every case.
Again,
Mend It Mark's YouTube channel is a treasure trove of audio repair goodness, well worth a watch.
Tom Evans only has himself to blame for this.
See what you think.
In his usual style,
Mark gives a step by step teardown and repair in his video, he did his thing, repaired it and that was the end of the Video.
Tom Evans wasn't happy he had done this, and filed a Copyright claim with YouTube and the video was taken down.
Never said Copyright of WHAT, just made the accusation and by default YouTube took his side.
Mark never dissed the Product, made a judgement on it, the only thing he did was highlight the Manufacturers blurb on the Website, and how the circuit designs were familiar to him, and anyone who can read datasheets.
Also pointed out that Part Numbers had been sanded off Op Amps etc, which made it a difficult repair.
Mark reverse engineered the amp and wrote his own service manual to enable him to fix it, really clever stuff.
Anyhoo,
The video was asked to be taken down from YouTube by Tom Evans claiming breach of Copyright, it was and Tom Evans probably thought that was that.
Quite the opposite happened!
Given the recent case of another Hifi YouTuber "Goldensound" being given a Cease and Decist by DCS for his honest review of their Bartok Dac, this was picked up by several other Audio YouTube'rs and they re-uploaded Mark's video on the Tom Evans amp on their own Channel! :D
Heres the Video here, perhaps you'll see why Tom Evans was unhappy there was a teardown of his £25K phono preamp, you be the judge.
https://youtu.be/uJ35ufUh2Tw?si=x-CkE7j4Da7V1krG
There is a bit of pushback against Manufacturers "coming it", and this has picked up a lot of Traction.
Also about the nature of YouTube's Guilty till proven Innocent policy, and when people targetted pushed back, they have won in every case.
Again,
Mend It Mark's YouTube channel is a treasure trove of audio repair goodness, well worth a watch.
Tom Evans only has himself to blame for this.
See what you think.