Someone Please Advise

After reading that we may have to ask Mike to change the "bag" guy to wearing a plastic bag

 

ouch!

 

For what it's worth, I've gotten messages from 5 people sofar who have thanked me for making my concerns public, and cancelled existing orders. and about 3 ppl who weren't ready to order just yeat, and this incidednt was enough to back them off.

$40 vs 8 multi-piece orders??? and this is only in a couple of hours. and only the ones who told me about it. I'm really not the biggest one to complain, and again, perhaps I jumped the gun a bit, but I'm just tired of having to defend eD, the eDi's was sort of their "last chance" in my book, and THEY DIDN'T EVEN SOUND ALL THAT GOOD... I had no idea they were going to blow so hugely, and from all of the precutious I took, it still boggles my mind.

I'm also a pretty regular haunter of the caraudio section over at protege5.com which is actually a very knowledgeable community as well. That's mostly my regular haunt as it were. Unfortunately I've steered many of that crew the ways of eD, if I could take it back I would. Thatsaid, I still enjoy my 12a and will likely keep it for quite awhile after having built a fiberglass box for it. I just hope nothing ever goes wrong with it.

 

Soooo, are you looking for new comps? What did you pay for the eDIs? Maybe I can change your brand selection

 

oh, and I paid by check card form my back. It's a visa certified thing, but I'm not really sure it counts for anything I heared of others before with the same kind of deal and their check card did not count.

I would certainly love to get my money back, or atleast a functioning speaker set, but at this point I'm just done, v'e had it, I'm fed up, screw it, I said what I said and knew that in doing so I likely torched any of my chances of this getting taken care of. Do I fell better having done so? not at al, I really honestly wish none of this happened, I'd likely be happily driving around listening right now...

 

Looking for new comps, always, I've had a fetish with listening and take a demo disc with me wherever I go incase Ihappen to stumble upon a new shop and have a chance to listen to something different. SOudns I like: Boston Pro's and Focal K2p's. I'm also not entirely offended by JL VR's and I've heared Kodas I've liked but it was a non-objective kind of thing just is some dude's car. I'm actually in WA, and my cousin lives down the street from Audire so I'm hoping to perhaps drop by there sometime. the eDi's I got on their preorder thing forlike $220ish so fortunately I'm not out toomuch with the deal. I'm actually kind of pondering jsut for the sake of keeping things affordable that I may just get some mids and use my still functioning CDT xovers and tweeters. Anyone know bychance howmuch it will effect thigns if I mix'n match?

 

90% of debit card offer the same fraud protection now days, a few years ago this was not the case (I still advise against using Debit Cards for onling Purchases regaurdless with credit your not playing with your "bill" money if someone steals your card number )

contact your bank

 

That would absolutely work, and is a fun way to do things.
No joke - my best sounding system ever was a conglomeration - SoundStream Exact series component set crossovers, Peerless tweeters, Vifa-made Parts Express house-brand speakers.
Doesn't sound glamorous, but those SS Xovers were a real nice unit, the Peerless tweeters were very nice, and the PE mids were overacheivers.
And very affordible.

What you will run into as issues:
Efficiency mismatch.
You may have enough adjustment in the Xover, attenuation for the tweeter, to match your new mids without an issue.
It's really no big thing if you can't quite, you can build what's known as an L-pad very cheaply (it's just two resistors), to attenuate whatever isn't quite in line.

I think this might be your best bet, unless it's the tweets that were really "ho hum".

Lots of places out there to pick up good 4 ohm mid/midbass drivers at, for relatively little money (even as low as $15 each). B)

 

nope I loved the tweets actually ver impressive, the only thing of the set taht really floored me as a matter of fact, so hopefully I'll be set here...

 

Which is another reason why I can't wait til you guys get BA going. It's having people like you backing your products that keeps people coming back. Having awesome customer service is something you just can't fuck with. Not, OH......... well.......... It looks like your mids are junk, sucks to be you.

And I agree 100% about your "damage control." You can either lose $100 to replace somebody elses mistake, which in turn will bring you in alot more than that thanks to that customer recommending others to buy your stuff. Or, you can decide to keep your $100, and lose potentially thousands of dollars cuz now you have the same guy who is doing everything he can to keep people from buying your product.

I can guaran...damn....tee. that when it comes to buying my next sub, it will either be something from you, or something from the likes of Seth. Why? Cuz you two don't give people the run around when something does go wrong. And if I have any problems or questions, that you two will answer or help in anyway you can.

Not trying to sound like an ass kisser here but, I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about.

 

If you guys actually had any idea how cheap it really is to recone a little mid like that, you would be even more disgusted then you already are :unsure: . You say $100 for customer satisfaction? How about less than 10% of that.

 

Yeah but supposedly the coil was implanted into the motor making them useless. At least thats what I read in that thread. Didnt really notice it in the pictures but i was too amazed at how much of that coil came off to look. I really would not be surprised if the coil they are using is using crappy/not enough glue.

 

The mature and responsible post from Ben, and the only one left on the thread... Way to edit and great CS guys.

Is it just me or does anyone else see something funny about these "blown coils" due to abuse? The formers are not burned and the anodizing still looks fresh to me. It really doesn't appear to have been abused IMHO

 

Thats what I was thinking. The former is disformed but it doesnt appear to be from heat. The coil, while hard to see, also appears to be in good color. I still do not see how that much of the coil came off though. Bad glue or not enough glue is the only thing I can see causing that burnt or unburnt. I havent dealt with a ton of blown drivers or the raw materials. Maybe geo or someone else has some insight there.

 

I personally will never deal with ED again. You have more trust in them than me. Nor would I purchase their amps because I have had a few poor experiences with my Tsunami amps. While it is a new design and supposed to be a lot better I still remember hearing that the Tsunami amps were supposed to rival the Directed and Cadence area of amps. Yeah, sure thing buddy.

Personally I would go with a Shiva ($125) and a 2 channel amp bridged. Or a 4channel amp bridged with each coil running on its own channel. It will be a bit more expensive than the preorder deal but you could get like 600watts for around $200. So that will be $325 ish. Personally I would rather spend that extra $75 than to deal with ED. Plus their equipment really isnt that good IMO. They are cheap products at a cheap price.

 

ED does not make anything.. Nor do alot of companies

ED amps were made by VE but now they have a thing with TRU, so I dont know who is making them..

If I were you I would Cancell.... With as much differant products out there, Customer Service is EVERYTHING, if you can not provide it, why support them???