Music Hall Maverick? - Has Anyone Heard...

Sorry people, the review I mentioned above was in Tellig's column in the recent Stereophile. My apologies.

I actually owned one for about four months and have now exchanged it for an Arcam CD93T. I think that the CD player is good but not better than anything in its price range. Transparency and rhythm are its strong suits, but overall detail, lushness, and bass fullness are not. The SACD player was very good. However, I didn't find it to be any better than a Marantz 8260.

So why did I end up exchanging mine?

Well. It refused to play 30% of my CD collection initially. So I ended up brining it back to the dealer who contacted the Music Hall rep. The MH rep told them nothing was wrong with the player and sent it back to me. It still refused to play my cd collection. Afraid maybe I had bad CD's I bought a duplicate version of Coldplay's "A Rush of Blood to the Head." Same problem. Wouldn't read or play the disc. So I brought it back to teh dealer who again contacted the MH rep. He suggested that MH had a bad run of chipsets, so they replaced some chip.

I brought it home, and instead of just not playing my discs, it now ejected them spinning in the tray! This damaged two of my CD's. MH rep than agreed to get me a new unit. For which I waited two months. I got tired and demanded an exchange. So I ended up with an Arcam CD93t which I loved when I auditioned at the same store.

I know not all owners have had this problem, but MH's handling of this issue was slow at best.

Neoprufrok, I have heard this complaint with early Mavericks, but supposedly this issue was worked out after the initial hiccup.

Out of my entire collection of CD's, my Maverick has only refused to play one. Unfortunately, it's one of my favorites. I have a later unit, so I think it's safe to assume the problem has been addressed.