woo hoo.  Made it into the teens, although still listed as new.  might need a couple more rachels to be gathered together before they start them.

Checking the waiting list this morning, and the pages of names/orders changed from showing ten at a time to 100 on my screen.  This change makes it difficult to calculate where exactly one stands in line.  Not impossible, just tricky.  Is there a way to switch back to presenting ten names at a time on the screen?  Can I do that from my screen?

Exciting news!  Congratulations John, looking forward to your review.

Congratulations DancingSea on your impending delivery.

So it is going out tomorrow?

The forecast is for 5+ inches of snow Tuesday night followed by 5+" Wednesday, then  by 5+" Wednesday night then 5+" Thursday.

Everything will be drug down to a standstill.

Sorry, I'm not making this up!

Donnie, I live on Maui.  What is this 5” you refer to?  Is that 5” of beach sand or 5” of surf lapping onto your feet as you walk the beach?

Are they unable to handle sand and surf in Illinois?

I’m not clear what the issue is?

My mind is no longer able to associate a meaning to the letters s, n, o, and w.

No, there is no reason for concern.

Sarah from Decware posted this a few days ago:

"Hi all,

I'm getting tons of emails about people not seeing their order on the list but others who submitted after them. There are still quite a few to go so please bare with us.

Some of them are being added out of order depending on the method of payment (our system sends them to different departments). It also depends on the way the order was submitted. Right now I have orders in 4 separate systems. (Phone orders, UltraCart orders, PayPal orders, and Steve's new website orders.)

Please do not worry as your name will be added according to your order date & time. Smiley

I think within a week or so the new assistant (Veronica) will have the list fully updated."



Just to give you an idea.......when I ordered in June it took nearly a month to show up, now that Sarah has help I don't believe you should expect that kind of wait.

Alain --

I certainly hope that Vancouver Island is far enough from the mainland so as to not interfere with your location.....it seems like it could be a close call in which case you can send it on to me in Tacoma.

Ok, Ok...I'm out here on the Olympic Peninsula. I'll split the difference. You both are welcome to come for a listen anytime.

Can I keep the T-shirt though?

It is also an island across the straits from the city it shares a name with, no? Not that I am arguing with the resident of the city of Vancouver.

I learn something new every day.  Thank you.  Being a Nova Scotian, I have only been to Victoria once for a couple of hours on the way back from an Alaskan cruise and not yet been to Vancouver.  

Have a wonderful day.

Vancouver does have the  magic mushroom shops that have a nurse on site to help you make the correct "healing" decisions.

Not that I ever been there

The Eagle Has Landed!

https://i.imgur.com/hLlskXf.jpg

(Not sure how else to post the photo. What’s the forum photo posting secret?)

Congratulations! You have to let us know how it all sounds when you can.

Interestingly due to a Grateful Dead office error I got THREE copies of that Dave's Picks #41.

Thanks!  I'll write more about the sound later.  First, there's a mystery afoot with the new CSP3.  Have posted about it here:

https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1644192270/0

Just make sure you stay away from those cans!!

Die, gas pumper!

Woohoo! I'm in the 40s.... !

Regarding the DSR cable contractor who retired suddenly... Can anyone confirm if that is Cullen Cables? I've had some challenges trying to reach them.

About 3 weeks shy of 1 full year, my amp is on its way to me. In that year's time I changed my order 3 times, sold off the initial equipment I was going to use w/ the first and second orders and currently have no need or particular use for the amplifier incoming other than curiosity.

Extended wait times are ok if you can stick to a plan Anyway, orders placed in March of 2021 should be arriving soon for anyone that wants to know the current waitlist timetable.

Nick324 - Congratulations!  I think?

Every time I see a post like this, I look for the "Like" button - haven't found it yet, but I still look for it

Congratulations!!!

Geno

thanks guys.  Spent the weekend preparing for it.  

If anyone has experience with rasberry pi streamers ans Qobuz send me a PM

I went a little over a month without checking just so I could have better gauge of my remaining wait time. Looks like about 35 orders shipped.  10 months or so remaining at that rate. Started at #700, which is certainly better than the guys at 1400 now......

I’m around 400 and was 700 when I ordered early July 2021. For me the waiting list situation is even more a headache for Decware than the clients for a few reasons:

The waiting list is still growing. Decware is still receiving more order everyday than they can produce. So even increasing output for now would not result in a decrease in waiting time for new clients.
With a 3 to 4 years waiting list you are exposed to potential reduced margin due to inflation (increase in parts cost, increase in wages…). The selling price is locked in, a new client knows what will be the price of his amp in 4 years. However Declare cannot be sure how expensive it will be in 2026 to build an amp ordered 4 years before.

Another point is that it is becoming hard to release new products when it won’t be available for many years. Assuming Decware release a new UFO at a slightly higher price.
Decware would have to deal with clients who wants to switch for the new model and clients who don’t. A third option would be to offer the new product to clients in the waiting line with no price increase which become a hard solution with a very long waiting list.
So in the end you re stuck building multiple version of the same amp for many years which is not good for production output.

I could go longer but I just wanted to give a few example to reassure people. No matter how long the list is, Decware has the most interest I making it shorter ( or stop its increase) while on our side, we just have to wait  :)

It is hard to tell, scaling is not an easy thing. For example, assuming you can double your output by doubling your employees , growing to a small business of 2 employees, you would only need to hire 2 more. Now once you have four employees and want to double your output again now you need to hire 4 people. So you go from a 2 employees to 8 people.
Of course it is just a simplistic example and you could probably realize economies of scale but the whole business would change.
With more employees you would need more equipment, more space , it would take more time managing the people, their schedule, their training…
On the top of that you now need to analyse your production line and reduce bottlenecks in your chain because the relationship in / out is not linear at each positions.
You need flexibility and not everybody should work  at full capacity to absorb the natural variation of the production . For example if your techs can build 4 amps a day you also want you quality and testing employee to be able to handle the testing of 4 amps a day. But you need  buffers because maybe it takes twice a much time to build a Tory vs a UFO but on the testing side it doesn’t requires double the time.
On the top of that you will also have a fluctuation in the type of products you have to build in a certain week.

By now, I guess you all understood 2 things:

-scaling is hard
-I have obviously no idea of the reality of building audio components.

Now the good parts: When I first heard about Decware a year or so ago, it was about great sounding products for an amazing value with life time warranty, handmade in the US . None of that changed (and hasn’t changed since the company creation). The waiting list is long but no compromises were made!!!
Pre owned products are frequently showing up online if you want to skip the line.

For the rest of us the solution is the same : wait and enjoy the process because according to everybody that already received their order, it's worth it.