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<blockquote data-quote="Josh Millward" data-source="post: 67771" data-attributes="member: 970">Re: Crest repair center neededHi Alan, You are the only person I&#039;ve heard from who is having this kind of problem. However, please note that I am NOT &quot;Crest Audio Factory Repair&quot;... I work for MediaMatrix Technical Services... the repair guys are on the other side of town. So, I don&#039;t really have a very good database of information to pull that statement from. Really, the best feedback I get is in forums, like this one, where people, like you, express their frustrations. I like to try to help these people when I can because I know how irritating and frustrating it can be when trying to deal with a large &quot;face-less&quot; corporation. Anyway, after asking, in this very thread, for people to get in touch with me if they are having trouble with their amplifiers, I didn&#039;t receive a single PM from anyone. I even asked some friends that I have who have racks of their own amplifiers if they were having trouble with them and all of them indicated that they were essentially worry free. But, knowing how a lot of these guys run their systems, I don&#039;t think there are very many people who are actually running their amps bridged into 4 ohms. I fully agree with you that if the amps are rated to do it, they should be able to do it all day, every day and it shouldn&#039;t be a problem. However, most of the guys I know will run their amps at 4 ohms stereo (or 8 ohms bridged), thus providing the opportunity to switch to 2 ohms stereo (or 4 ohms bridged) in the event that they have an amp die. I&#039;m going to take that photo you posted in message #54 and show it to some people and ask them why that trace would possibly be problematic on the Pro8200 amplifier. I will be glad to let you know what I find. Please forward to me in a PM who the Crest Audio service tech is that you have been using. If he has been experiencing a lot of this kind of failure, we would like to know about it. Thanks!Josh</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Josh Millward, post: 67771, member: 970"] Re: Crest repair center needed Hi Alan, You are the only person I've heard from who is having this kind of problem. However, please note that I am NOT "Crest Audio Factory Repair"... I work for MediaMatrix Technical Services... the repair guys are on the other side of town. So, I don't really have a very good database of information to pull that statement from. Really, the best feedback I get is in forums, like this one, where people, like you, express their frustrations. I like to try to help these people when I can because I know how irritating and frustrating it can be when trying to deal with a large "face-less" corporation. Anyway, after asking, in this very thread, for people to get in touch with me if they are having trouble with their amplifiers, I didn't receive a single PM from anyone. I even asked some friends that I have who have racks of their own amplifiers if they were having trouble with them and all of them indicated that they were essentially worry free. But, knowing how a lot of these guys run their systems, I don't think there are very many people who are actually running their amps bridged into 4 ohms. I fully agree with you that if the amps are rated to do it, they should be able to do it all day, every day and it shouldn't be a problem. However, most of the guys I know will run their amps at 4 ohms stereo (or 8 ohms bridged), thus providing the opportunity to switch to 2 ohms stereo (or 4 ohms bridged) in the event that they have an amp die. I'm going to take that photo you posted in message #54 and show it to some people and ask them why that trace would possibly be problematic on the Pro8200 amplifier. I will be glad to let you know what I find. Please forward to me in a PM who the Crest Audio service tech is that you have been using. If he has been experiencing a lot of this kind of failure, we would like to know about it. Thanks! Josh [/QUOTE]

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