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You need to read the "earlier coverage" link for this to make sense. For starters, "Tom Evans" is the manufacturing company, not necessarily just a random dude. But I guess Mend it Mark embarrassed the hell out of this company, so they're lashing out in the finest corporate-approved tradition for YouTube.

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I watched the original video (big fan of Mark), and it was a perfectly ordinary repair video, albeit for a ridiculously overpriced piece of audiophile equipment. There was absolutely nothing in there I remember that could infringe copyright, unless simply opening up and taking a video of the inside of a piece of equipment can now infringe. He didn't even disparage the preamp. Unlike much audiophile nonsense, he noted it was genuinely properly designed electronics (albeit very very expensive).

Edit: I'm now seeding https://archive.org/details/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went... Enjoy your Streisand Effect.

I'm getting "The item is not available due to issues with the item's content." on the archive.org link

Works for me, did you try the torrent?

It works now, guess as the other poster said, it was a transient archive.org issue.

Archive.org has been weirdly broken for weeks. That error can pop up on almost everything when you try to get things one way, but if you try to get the same file another way, it downloads happily. I'm worried.

I'm guessing part of the embarrassment is from this part:

> which the manufacturer claimed ‘could not be fixed’

which Mark definitively proved wrong. But also, he doesn't have to explicitly disparage the equipment if people can just look at it and make their own conclusions. Even if the actual design is sound (I'm not remotely qualified to judge), you have to admit it looks a bit janky.

As for valid copyright claims, you're probably looking for reason where none exists.

Thanks for the archive link. I wonder what the DIP switches were for in the end?

Here's the magnet link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:600efecbcd0e270661c3f4ca0604b03a3b4adabd&dn=the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went-wrong-tom-evans-mastergroove-sr-mk-iii-rjbp-fsfzi-i&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia601500.us.archive.org%2F17%2Fitems%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia801500.us.archive.org%2F17%2Fitems%2F

Watching the repair video, at 13:25 he states that the resistors have to be have well matched for the circuit to work.

I posit that you could use 10% resistors, and it would work just as well. The individual gains don't have to be exactly the same, since they're all being summed anyway.

Oh, and those plastic stand-offs really need to go.

This reminded me of an old advertisement which compared a component stereo amplifiers specifications to that of a piece of wire. I spend almost an hour looking with google, etc., and I can't find it. 8(

Apparently Tom Evans is a dude at the company though. Their website looks as well put together as the amp in the video: http://www.audiodesign.co.uk/index.html

Exactly right, and more. Oh goodness.

I figured that was possible, hence "not necessarily", but he seems to be acting in the role of company here. At least for me, having a name that sounds like "just a guy", rather than a more conventional manufacturing company name, threw me way off for a little bit. :D

> The new MasterGroove SR Mk3 is a quite literally beyond reality!

Oookay. But ironically fitting somehow.

so it doesn't exist?

No, it works okay-ish. For the cost they should have been able to do better though.

I just mean being literally beyond reality could be interpreted to mean "not existing"

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