Here's a quick update. My DaViD is playing less and less of what I put in it (cd's). I fear the end is near and that a trip to the factory for servicing is inevitable.
I while back this piece was giving me a lot of problems playing DVD's so I swapped it out with another DaViD from my bedroom system.
Luckly I live in CA and the turn around time to the factory and back seems to be less than three weeks. I'd say right now that one in every ten discs makes that peculiar scraping sound including a brand new disc I just bought (George Winston/ Night divides the day).
On the average this transport is spending around one week a year being serviced. Other than that I have no complaints, I've compared it to other transports and prefer it to everything in and around that price range, it's still the cornerstone of my digital front end in two systems. My upgrade path being the DaViD II with progressive scan when they start selling a little cheeper in the used market.
I while back this piece was giving me a lot of problems playing DVD's so I swapped it out with another DaViD from my bedroom system.
Luckly I live in CA and the turn around time to the factory and back seems to be less than three weeks. I'd say right now that one in every ten discs makes that peculiar scraping sound including a brand new disc I just bought (George Winston/ Night divides the day).
On the average this transport is spending around one week a year being serviced. Other than that I have no complaints, I've compared it to other transports and prefer it to everything in and around that price range, it's still the cornerstone of my digital front end in two systems. My upgrade path being the DaViD II with progressive scan when they start selling a little cheeper in the used market.