QSC or Matrix???

 

It is quite rare in this world to find a person who produces a product which he believes in and is the best that he can possibly make it.  Matrix, as I'm sure everyone knows was a large company producing millions of pounds worth of amps every year. At the time the amps were in the same price bracket as QSC. The company went bust for whatever reason, Andy says it was because the retailers were not paying their bills quickly enough. It probably also had something to do with the influx of cheap Chinese amps.

 

Andy is now working from home, and has automated the amp building process to a point where he can compete with the chinese prices. With  minimal overheads he can invest in the best quality components, producing an amp which far outstrips the quality of anything from China. If you deal with him you are dealing with the guy that designed and built the amp.... totally from scratch.

 

Over the years I have had 6 Matrix amps as my rig has grown, shrunk and grown again. I have only ever had 1 problem, 1 side of a UKP1300 went down. I e-mailed Andy and he phoned  me within the hour. He asked how urgently I needed the amp and even offered to send an amp on loan overnight if I was stuck. There was no particular hurry, but even so it was back within 6 days.

 

I sold a Matrix Vector to a friend which had been my studio amp at home. I bought it second hand and had it for ages with no problems, but my mate lent it out to someone who unfortunately has a reputation for blowing stuff up (he blew 2 bass drivers and a comp driver in 6 months on some speakers I built for him). Anyway since it was quite old my mate took it to a local engineer to fix. According to my mate he was amazed at the build quality and said it was  far better than most of the amps he worked on.

 

Like I said at the outset it is rare to find people who will commit 100% to support  products they make and the people that buy them. Andy at Matrix is one. David at VOLT loudspeakers is another.

 

Try phoning Uli Berringer when your EP2500 goes wrong and see how far you get.