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Contact us by telephone between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM Pacific Time in the United States, Monday through Friday. I generally answer e-mail 7 days a week and nearly 24 hours a day. I need a life.

E-mail:
mike@altavistaaudio.com

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Alta Vista Audio
1445 NW Portland Ave
Bend, OR 97701 USA
Please schedule appointment beforehand

Email preferred, but if you just have to call:
toll-free: 877 517 4247
or 541 848 7021 (USA)
Fax: 484 348 3O82

Offering Rebuilds, Upgrades, Modification and Servicing for Counterpoint-brand Equipment — Since 1998

Notice of scheduled closure: Alta Vista Audio will be closed from July 28 until August 5. Someone will be here to receive packages, but I will not be able to take calls or check emails.

Production run No. 7 of the NP220 upgrade for SA-20s and SA-220s is now shipping. Click here to be taken to the NP220 upgrade page.

Looking for a pure-tube phono preamp or line stage? Seriously, check out my new Aria WV preamp! Click here for more information.

Alta Vista Audio L.L.C. is wholly owned and operated by Michael Elliott, the former president and chief designer at Counterpoint. I offer repairs for almost all Counterpoint products, as well as updates, upgrades, and custom modifications.

The Project Studio. 19 feet wide x 28 feet long, with 13 to 17 foot sloping ceiling. Concrete floor. Our LEDE (Live End - Dead End) listening room offers pinpoint imaging with no early reflections. You can listen directly into the recording acoustic. Even more important, I can easily hear the components I am designing, and the effects of upgrades on your components.

Hot News
	REMOTE CONTROL and the Best volume control ever? click here.

	Upgraded Power Supply Umbilical cords for selected preamps models KICKS BUTT! -- click here.

	"Stuff I Like" -- a brief list of associated parts that I've found to be excellent. A work in progress -- click here.

	Can't find an SA-9 Phono Stage? We now offer a great conversion for the SA-5 or SA-5.1 -- click here.

	Modification Information for SA-4 OTL Amplifiers! Now you can use unmatched tubes! Keep those SA-4 amps running. Click here to see the basic modification information (for do-it-yourselfers), and HERE to see how Alta Vista Audio does it.

	Resonance Control. Now your Counterpoint product can sound like it was built with point-to-point wiring. No more circuit board resonances and smearing. Click here to read about this simple but dramatic new technique.

	CRITICAL NOTICE TO OWNERS OF NPM AMPLIFIERS. Click here to read about a possible pattern of failure and what you can do about it.

Mike Elliott

- Former president and designer at Counterpoint, now offering new designs at Aria Ltd.

"Finally - a preamp worthy enough to be the sucessor to the Counterpoint SA-11 and SA-9!"
The new Aria WV, now shipping.

Audio engineering is an art relatively unaffected by modern technology, and its expression will be found exclusively in those areas where present-day electrical recording technology is at its weakest. The great components are the ones that give that refined sense of musical authenticity which cannot be measured with test equipment. This requires the skill and patience of experienced designers, and such products are treasured far above those that merely achieve good technical performance.

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