All,
I've been receiving many emails asking about lead-times of Red Wine Audio products/mods, so I decided to post about this.
I've been extremely busy building pretty much every product these days (especially now that I have new dealers outside the USA... see below), but I now have truly expert assistance and things are moving along very well.
For June/July, here are estimated lead-times:
iMod (user-supplied 4G or 5G/5.5G iPod) -- Approx. 1 to 2 weeks from when I receive your iPod.
As you might have seen from the iMod website or from this forum, we have teamed up with ALO Audio for the 5G/5.5G iMod. There is also an ALO Audio forum on Headfi:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=86This is also a great place to post iMod-related topics. Ken and I are also working on a custom iMod Dock for the 5G/5.5G iMods. These will be made handmade by a master woodworker (a good friend of Ken's) entirely out of real wood -- bamboo, burl wood, Coco bola etc. and will feature
V-caps that will be hard-wired to the dock connector pins and Cardas RCA outputs jacks (as well as 1/8" mini jack output), and will also feature a DC input jack for charging.
This is going to take the 5G/5.5G iMod performance to the MAX aa Image one of these sitting pretty on top of your Signature 30, and then using a very short pair of interconnects... very sweet!
Signature 30, Signature 70s, Signature 3S -- Approx. 1 to 2 weeks from when I receive your order. I now have many of each kind of these units "partially built," and have a nice stock of finished amplifier boards, so getting these units finished and shipped is a lot faster than it used to be (recall last summer my lead time was 6 to 8 weeks
) Finally, shorter lead-times for these units!
The Signature 30/70s/3S are now also shipping in boxes with custom-molded polystyrene packaging, so they will arrive safe n' sound.
Olive Music Server Modifications -- Approx 2 to 3 weeks from when I receive your unit (If I order a new unit for you from Olive, this takes about a week to arrive from Olive. You can also supply your own unit).
The Olive Music Server mods have picked up in popularity since the last two audio shows (Montreal and NYC), and I am now able to install a larger 3.5" hard drive into the Musica models (e.g. a 500GB drive can be installed)... please contact me privately via email about this and for pricing info.
Dealers -- We have obtained a few dealer outside of North America (See:
http://www.redwineaudio.com/dealers.html) and are in the process of obtaining more throughout the world, so hopefully those of you outside the USA will be able to get to hear our products soon.
Ok, that's about it for now.
Thank you for all your interest and continued support!
Best regards,
Vinnie
