Hello to all,
Yep, you guys are correct Alpha is not the same as it used to be.
Now, if we could just get Shane to tell us how he really feels. hi hi
Though, no worries here Shane, I tend to agree with you....it's just that I still hope for something better than this, from Alpha...

Sure, Alpha still make the only all-mode, no-time-limit, "brick-on-the-key" amateur amps....but, it's clearly not the same company and absolutely not run/managed anywhere close to what we used to think of as "Alpha"!
The days of the 77Dx
(considered by many hams to be the best amateur radio amp ever built!) are fond, but distant, memories (except for those of us who still have one, or two, running like a Swiss watch....40+ years on)!
And, even the days of of decent, but smaller amps, like the 78, 86, etc. are also long gone!

As well as the joys of dealing with Gordon and Molly having long since passed!

And, "Alpha" certainly isn't ETO any more.
{although, from reading his weird response to a customer even if he somehow thinks, in the back of his mind, that he is the next Dick Ehrhorn....only in his dreams, is Mike D. even going to come close! And, I feel uneasy even writing their names in the same paragraph.
}I believe some of you all here knew him personally, but I just met him once....I met Dick Ehrhorn, W4ETO, many many years ago (at a hamfest here in Florida), while I was still dreaming of whether I could ever own such works of art and engineering! Unfortunately Dick passed last year, after battling with Alzheimer's.
[I remember meeting him at his ETO booth (in mid-late 70's), and drooling over the new 77Dx....but it wasn't until years later that I realized why he also had a Signal/One rig there, learning he was the former general manager (and one of the original founding principles) of Signal/One!]
So, while I'm an optimist and I still hope that Mike D. and his team can make a go of running the "new" Alpha....I also live in the real world.
And reading the above message along with hearing of their lack of customer service (not "service", Glenn....but actual customer service / customer care), it make me question my optimism.
Richy, I do appreciate your posting of this message from Mike D.
And, I do still wish the Alpha team the best.
Oh, and Richy, I've got my hands up!
Yep, I am one of those guys who owns multiple Alpha's.....I have two 77Sx's...one at home in my main shack, and one hundreds of miles away at my temporary QTH (oh, and I have an Alpha 78 here as well, as I bought it before I found my second 77)...
So, yep...I own 3 Alpha amps! And, I guess they are "Legacy" amps? (although I'd call 'em "Classics")...They all work perfectly!
(and, they all look and work as good or better than when they out of the factory > ~ 40 years ago)
Not sure if this makes me look like a fool, or just someone that likes what he likes?
(and, fyi...if you add up the cost of all three of my Alpha's [including spare tubes!], it still is less than or equal-to the cost of a Power-GeniusXL Amp and Tuner....and, that's THREE legal limit amps! Although they're all "brick-on-the-key", I don't think I'm gonna' do that with my Alpha 78 at 1500 watts, with 39 year old 8874's.....but the 77Sx's, will do that all day long...)
73,
John, KA4WJA