I brought the preamp BP26 and amp 3Bsst2 personally to my dealer and it was picked up 3 days later by the distributors sale rep. I don't think they shipped it back to Canada,... Since the output stage of the preamp was destroyed I also sent my poweramp, because it might be the cause of the problem. It was behaving strangely shortly before the bp26 failure. But, whether this was the cause or result of the burned circuit is unclear at this time. BeNeLux region is small, we are talking about a few hunderd miles max. between the borders. So 2 weeks shipping in each direction is .... a long time.