Core Audio Server Ryan Mintz


Has anyone had any experience with Core Audio (Ryan Mintz)?

Or, has anyone had any good experiences, with either product quality, or customer service?

I purchased a server from him over a year ago.
For the limited amount of time I have been able to listen to it,
it has displayed no real sound quality difference compared to a stock Mac mini.

After hundreds of emails, shipping the server and/or power supply back and forth, and exchanging it for several different units, none of them will run for an hour without crashing...

Ryan has only made absurd claims, saying the warranty was void.

Is this an isolated case?

Frustrated consumer
snuffaluffagus

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Its very simple to do search on "Core Audio". I just did and I am thankful I never dealt with this company. If all these people's story (e.g. unit fried etc) are even half true then ......Brrrrrr.

Also, one can read Audio reviews here on Audiogon. In section "Digital" there are long threads on two popular servers (both good but different)
Hello Benjamin.

If you were responsible for R&D of CORE Audio power supplies then I must inform you that one of these (sold by CORE, I believe) to fellow audiophile and it "burnt" within first few days and was returned ...but no refund was issued.

I think you bear partial responsibility for poor design...

I wish you the best in audio but perhaps MOJO Audio should stay away from power supplies design and manufacturing...

Musica Pristina Virtuoso server I bought a few months ago (also with external power supplies, I believed designed by highly respected Spectron Audio) did not give me a SINGLE problem - not in software not in hardware. NONE !!!

I feel rather upset that months ago, I was considering purchase of the server from you and Ryan and have corresponded with him and just by luck I escaped all these horrors that others describe here.

There are too many companies coming from who knows where without any roots, any reputation and they SELL !!!!
Ben,
It was purchased from Core Audio in 2012. I do associate you with this PSU because of your own words that it was your R&D...

To be honest, I have not heard anything negative associated with Mojo Audio