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Bad luck W/ Musical Fidelity DAC

I purchased the new A3 24 DAC last week. For the first few days it was working great, yesterday the volumn level took a nose dive and the sound was fading in and out. I replaced all the cables and the power cord, but no change. When I remove the right rca plug, the left speaker played normal, and when I remove the left rca plug, the right speaker played normal. What is wrong w/ this unit? To MF's credit, there are going to replace it but my wait will be at least 3 weeks.
128x128hughes12
unsound
7,329 posts
 
While product reliability may be an issue, it appears that both manufacturer and dealer have reacted in a most professional manner. Let us praise them for appropriately dealing with matters in which they do have control. Not living up to reviewer hype is out of thier control. Thank you for sharing your counter opinion. You have demonstrated that the proof is more often in the listening, rather than the reading.
cpcat
1 posts
 
I also had an a324 which had problems. It wouldn't play
on the 192 khz setting and would intermittently lose a lock
even on the 96 khz setting. Sam Tellig in his review also
mentioned having problems. I think something must be amiss
in either the manufacturing or QC of this unit. Glad you were able to return it.
Charles
cconraddaef
5 posts
 
I ALSO BOUGHT ONE OF THESE AND SO FAR SO GOOD. I'M THRILLED WITH THE SOUND AND NO QUALITY PROBLEMS YET.
amwarwick
40 posts
 
Musical Fidelity...I got all hyped after reading MF's review on their CD player, then remembered MF still believes turntables are cutting edge technology.
meby
46 posts
 
Did you not read the review in Stereophile where the unit was hand delivered by the owner of the company for review and while they were listening to it the thing stopped working and had to be sent back to England to be able to complete the review?
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