eightlegs
Established Member
Well 3 years and 3 months to be precise but not good! Guarantee is 2 years.
Looks like the DSP board has died as the only way I can get sound is via analogue source using pure direct mode. Not much use when everything apart from the CD was a digital source. Searching around it appears that there have been a fair few AVR2**'s and AVR3**'s with the same DSP board fault usually ending up as a c£250 repair from Arcam.
Now, I didn't purchase this from new but still I think its a tad poor that such well regarded equipment has this kind of life expectancy of one or more components. When it worked I couldn't fault it - amazing sound.
Or am I looking at it wrong and high end Hi-Fi gear is more akin to aggressively tuning high performance engines to within an inch of their life or overclocking PC's to their upper limits? If the components are stressed to the limits of their capabilities then they will fail early. But then for a consumer product shouldn't this have been thought about already?
I haven't contacted Arcam yet but I will just to see what they say. Im sure I remember something about electrical goods being 'fit for purpose' and things should be expected to last for a reasonable amount of time but I don't know where I stand on this.
What do you think?
Iain.
Looks like the DSP board has died as the only way I can get sound is via analogue source using pure direct mode. Not much use when everything apart from the CD was a digital source. Searching around it appears that there have been a fair few AVR2**'s and AVR3**'s with the same DSP board fault usually ending up as a c£250 repair from Arcam.
Now, I didn't purchase this from new but still I think its a tad poor that such well regarded equipment has this kind of life expectancy of one or more components. When it worked I couldn't fault it - amazing sound.
Or am I looking at it wrong and high end Hi-Fi gear is more akin to aggressively tuning high performance engines to within an inch of their life or overclocking PC's to their upper limits? If the components are stressed to the limits of their capabilities then they will fail early. But then for a consumer product shouldn't this have been thought about already?
I haven't contacted Arcam yet but I will just to see what they say. Im sure I remember something about electrical goods being 'fit for purpose' and things should be expected to last for a reasonable amount of time but I don't know where I stand on this.
What do you think?
Iain.