Aman Audio  ·  Canandaigua, NY

The Work
Speaks.

I started Aman Audio because of my desire to work with my hands, and a curiosity to understand how things work. I quickly discovered there's no better way to learn how something works than to take it apart and put it back together.

How I Got Here

Sound has always fascinated me. There was a period where I seriously going to school for acoustics. The job market pointed me toward computer science instead. My background in CS, particularly in theory, lent me a way to think about problems that has proven to only benefit my work on circuits: the debugging mindset, the cause and effect, the satisfaction of tracing a problem back to its root. That was always audio for me first. Coding only deepened my process.

I grew up in Rochester, and have spent five years building relationships in the local community before moving to Canandaigua in 2025. That time included working along Rob Storms (co-founder of Sound Source) and John Nau (Nau Engineering), who, if you're not familiar with, your gear almost certainly is. John took me under his wing, and I had the opportunity to build some amps together. He's still the person I call when something has me genuinely stumped. That relationship has shaped how I approach this work more than almost anything else.

Why Repair

Working with my hands has always been a priority - in the times when I haven't been able to, it's become readily apparent why it's so important. Working in circuits and audio specifically has proven to be a grounding (pun intended) experience, allowing me to think critically with a tangible reward at the end. Something about working through a problem, and hearing the outcome has made this kind of work so rewarding.

Like any serious musician or audio specialist, I started at the beginning: Fender-based circuits. The time of exploration around the Champ illustrates to me just how simple creating a good sound can be. The transistor revolution, A/B design, those all are rabbit holes I'm sure I'll be exploring for decades to come. A lot of what I do outside of repair work is experimenting with component values just to hear what changes, building tools for the bench, and talking to other techs about process.

The Repair That Taught Me the Most

A Mesa Boogie 2:90 stereo simulcast came in essentially destroyed. I spent a month and a half on it — well over a hundred hours. Not because I was making money on it, but because it was too good an opportunity to pass up.

I had to carve carbon out of burnt board sections by hand. Every surface-mount socket had issues that took hours to trace. At one point I spent days chasing a noise problem in the right channel before finally pinning it to pin 3 of a 12AX7 — something I would have missed cold if I hadn't become intimately familiar with that circuit over the weeks before.

That amp left working. I didn't charge nearly enough. But what I took away from it — in diagnostic instinct, in patience, in knowledge of that Boogie circuit — I couldn't have bought any other way.

Mesa Boogie 2:90 Simulcast

100+

Hours spent on a single repair

6

Weeks from first look to working amp

1

Pin on one tube causing channel noise — found after days of tracing

How I Work

Honest Assessment

Before any work begins you'll know what's wrong, what it'll cost, and whether it's worth fixing. I won't recommend work that isn't necessary, and I won't pad an estimate to cover my time on a learning curve.

Direct Communication

This is a one-person shop. When you bring your gear to Aman Audio, you're talking to the person doing the work — no handoffs, no surprises, no phone tag with someone who's never touched your amp.

Built for the Long Run

I'm not looking for one-time customers. I want to be a reliable resource for people who take sound seriously — the kind of shop you come back to, and that you'd recommend without hesitation.

Let's Get
Your Gear Working.

Drop me a message with what you've got and what's going on. I'll give you an honest read on what it needs, what it'll cost, and when I can have it back to you.

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