I personally have experienced Audio Arts customer service when I had a DIRECT lighting hit at a station. The poor guy spent over an HOUR on the phone with me getting me a parts list and prices together so I could show the insurance company that it wasn't cost-effective to repair. Guess who's console replaced the old one? He of course didn't know that though. Treating customers as if you were them is the right way to go. Most of us don't want manufactures to give away the store, but we want real help and somewhat reasonable parts prices/speed/longivity of availablity. That's what seperates real broadcast manufactures from the companies like Arrakis. Bill is right in dogging them. He's just trying to warn others here that might not be in the know yet about them.