I understand, Marbles (actually, I really don't...but for the sake of this discussion I will).
Do you have any idea what has occured in the past 1.5 months with Mark on a personal level? My guess is that you do not...I think your response would be quite different if so. There is no "stalling" of any sort going on here. The simple fact is that once in a while LIFE comes before business. For Mark that is rare (as you can see yourself in his reply to your message from China in the middle of the night) ...
I did not purchase the P1a from AV123.com
Why does that make a difference?
It has been 2.5 months, or about 10 weeks.
I have some idea of what problems MLS has had. In fact after 6 weeks it was clear Mark would not be making it out and he offered to send the MMK to me. After reading the manual it was clear HE or at least an AV123 representative should measure the RM40 speakers, a cabinet he currently builds.
4 weeks ago he agreed to measure Tysons. He made it sound immenant, but than nothing happened. He agreed to send an MMK to Jim and made it sound that it would be sent immeadiately (directly), but that didn't happen.
I do not know what is involved with the SOCS or MMK but Mark and I agreed for him to come out at the end of February, so it was either ready then, or he never intended to come out. Since I beleive he did intend to come out, then it must have been ready at that time, so I really don't know where you are coming from with this statement.
"If you had any idea what was involved in SOCS and MMK I think you'd be much more "forgiving" of a 2 week or even 6 week delay."
My frusterations are caused by Mark making me think things would happen quickly and then they don't.
