My terrible Mike Arnopol experience

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Joe, please tell us which builder 'attacked' you. Dude, stop twisting things around and outright lying.

looks like I'm just going to get attacked by all the Fearful builders...

 

[KJung]

It's disingenuous to blame the cab's failure on the tweeter's plastic waveguide. The fiberglass material and mounting technique was inherently unstable. It was destined to shatter -- and buzz. Like Monster, I know this from experience. I had five fiberglass cabs, and every single one failed. So his story is not unique. The whole fiberglass concept was a disaster that could never have a happy ending. But none of us knew that, as we were beta testers on a product concept that was unproven. The execution was flawed and resulting fallout inevitable. It's really too bad. Some of us lost a lot of money chasing that dream. Never again for me! I'm a permanent convert to the stability of wood.

My Arnopol TC115 performed flawlessly for me (and unlike you and your low volume jazz gigs, I used it to CRANK pop dance gigs.). Mine was one of the first ones made, and it did have a slight buzz in it that turned out to be a speaker wire or something. Mike fixed it in a day, got it back to me within a week (he met me more than halfway for the drop off and pickup), and it performed flawlessly for me in extreme volume situations over many, many gigs, and is continuing to perform flawlessly for the new owner (I've recently retired from gigging and sold virtually everything).

The good news for Mike is that this seems to be an unfortunate, isolated incident. IMO, Mike is a great player, a more than solid builder, and an honest cat. Seems like the OP is an honest cat also, and 'stuff happens' I guess.

That all being said, with some of the very lightweight wood builds out there, I agree that there are simpler and less expensive ways to go lightweight for sure.

 

[Stealth Fighter]

Not a cherry pick dude. Any semi-intelligent person can read the original post. Somebody said he should have complained immediately, implying that he didn't. In fact he did, so I showed only the relevant part.

Why does everything have to turn into a pissing contest?

I'm not your dude, buddy. I am fully intelligent, and I can see clearly what is going on here. IMO, Mike deserves a huge apology from the OP for evening starting this thread. YMMV

 

[makohund]

I'm not your dude, buddy. I am fully intelligent, and I can see clearly what is going on here. IMO, Mike deserves a huge apology from the OP for evening starting this thread. YMMV

MMV quite a bit. Though you might've missed Mike's own post on that subject.

 

[Stealth Fighter]

MMV quite a bit. Though you might've missed Mike's own post on that subject.

I've read the entire thread, thank you.

 

[makohund]

I've read the entire thread, thank you.

OK, good then.

Logical conclusion... unfortunate scenario, resulting in multiple parties saddened by the experience but harboring no ill will toward each other. All making their parts known, for others (buyers, builders, whoever) to hopefully learn from it if possible.

Unfortunately interspersed with some finger pointing & side taking... seemingly for no purpose beyond generating more "controversy" and with no possible conclusion other than making the experience worse for all involved. I see no point in that.

 

[BassyBill]

Well, this turned out well.

 

[Chef]

If you kids can't play nice with each other, and, instead, devolve to name calling and finger pointing; lockdown is always gonna be the end result.