The Official Pioneer 9G North American KRP-500M / KRP-600M Owner's Discussion Thread - Page 14  

another update:

My shipment has been delayed until at least next Tuesday (3/17). I was told by Alex that it was coming from Reno. It is now being shipped from Kentucky.

I'll update next week.

marty

Update

I decided to get a refund for now. I ordered from Leo at coza.com, let me say I do not in any way blame him. He said he would expedite my refund and it could be 2 or 3 days. He has been very helpful and professional though out this process. I believe he is as frustrated and baffled as we all are at the high damage rate currently happening. I know he is at the mercy of supplier and delivery chain.

Barry

For what it's worth, my broken 6020 shipped from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My unbroken 600M shipped from Whittier, California.

called shipper, said KRP-600m will be there in 15mins. man iam dying. if its broken i dont think i will try for another one, too many broken ones. i will post the good or bad news very soon. by the way, this set was to come from hauppauge n.y., then go to local shipper (pilot) at JFK, then come to me in suffolk ny. which is all on long island.

its broken.. it was shipped from ohio not hauppauge.have to make phone call fuc.....

OMG, another broken one. Damn, that is nuts.

My KRP-600 appears to have arrived intact. I haven't done a close inspection, however.

Does it turn on?

Someone needs to find out if its the same shipper and same distributor period. This is not common unless its a shipper that does not know what they are doing and I have seen that!

Mine did not come on a pallet. About to turn it on...fingers crossed.

Not having a pallet or putting a shipment on the plane doubles the chances of it not being good, this is IMO obviously
I am sorry to see so many units

Where are you located and do you know where your unit shipped from ( distributor location)?

I know that multiple shippers and multiple distributors have been used in the at least 6 broken units this week so far. Plus, I believe many were shipped on a pallet (mine was) and the boxes of many cracked ones were pristine.

My unbroken set had an decent-sized hole in the side of the box (visible in my pics). Go figure.

It seems like it would be difficult to pinpoint one particular distributor or shipper. I'm assuming these sets change hands multiple times -- especially if they're being shipped from Japan.

I am curious who ends up footing the bill for all of these broken sets. Is the the shipper's insurance company? The distributor? Pioneer?

Depends on various factors box damage, shippers contract etc

I'm now running the break-in DVD on the KRP-600M using D-Nice's settings. There is a buzz, which is louder than the buzz on my Panasonic 58PZ800. I'm guessing this is normal.


The distributor was Almo Corporation from Philadelphia, PA. The delivery company was New Penn.

My KRP-600M has a manufacture date of January, 2009.


Coincidentally, so did mine when it was delivered today. The unit itself seems fine.

i will tell you what i saw, then my opinion on why its broken. 4:30 pm today truck driver calls me and need directions to get here, he doesnt speak english, but he understands it ( i think). truck gets to my home, only one guy, he open backdoor and my box is sitting ther not strapped down or anything ( iam thinking how can it not be broken). driver slides it down back of 5ft truck with out using lift gate( my be it doesnt work) i had to help him get in my house, its 130lb tv. slide off top and there it is a 60" kuro WITH big freakin cracks, two on one side about 2ft long and another on the otherside 6" long. Now my opinion on why they are getting broken. i have worked in warehouse picking orders and i have 20 years working in trucks. when they come into country the are on a big plate all straped up and secure. when that brake them down lets say in hauppauge warehouse more then likely are ok. BUT when they are picked up to local shippers they are a single box which is about 1 1/2 ft wide, which are top heavy, then they are loaded in local trucks. if they are not taken care of very carefully they will fail over. when my driver opened backdoor, it wasnt strapped down! there is no way in hell that it didnt fall over. so i believe its once these big pallets are broken down the boxes are very likely to fall over. its a giant piece of glass.

Honestly doing this for a while and seeing the distributor names and locations you cant blame them as they are VERY reputable Its just many units are probably getting ordered but I agree these odds are very bad that I see on here

This seems way beyond anything normal. How many people actually have one that arrived undamaged...2?

These odds are crazy IMO. Like I had mentioned, mine was strapped to a pallet and secured to a wall inside the truck. Box was pristine.

I just spoke with Leo at Coza. The gameplan is now this. They are getting a new shipment in on Thursday. They will now be inspecting the displays before shipping out from warehouse. They have enough coming to fill current backorders/broken ones. I told him that I will go ahead and wait for this one. After that, I may cancel out of this mess. We will see. I really want one badly though before they are gone, so I dont want to give up either.

PS - He also told me that when he talked to the Pioneer rep, they said that only the glass and processing board ship over from Japan. They are actually assembled in the USA in California somewhere. They are getting damaged after that point. I cannot verify this though.

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I mounted a pair of 111 speakers on my 500M.

They do not fit out of the box. They are too far forward and the brackets do not match up.

To mount them I needed:

• 4 M5x16 bolts to screw into the plasma
• 4 1/4 inch nylon standoffs
• 4 washers to get a yunt more to make the speaker flush.

The top bracket can be left alone and the bottom bracket needs the hole expanded about 1/4 inch. We used a Dremel and a carbide bit. It was not hard. If you make the top flush, the bottom speakers are just a hair short. This seems to be as designed. My Friends 151 speakers do are just a bit short too.

Images:
PioScrews - Shows the parts and the black original screw.
BottomRightBracket - shows the original right bracket.
BottomLeftOverBottomRight - shows the right altered bracket with the unaltered left.
TopLeft - shows the top of the left speaker mounted.
BottomLeft - shows the bottom left speaker mounted.
FullView - is the finished product.

Of course, you could Dremel out the top a yunt to split the difference.
But I think they look great.

So how do they sound. Just fine!
I turned them up louder than I ever would - no problem.

- Rich

Here are the rest of the images of the finished product.

- Rich

Very nice and good job on the speakers. Looks good sir!

Typo. I corrected it. My Friends 151 speakers were just a tiny bit shorter than the display as well.

- Rich