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Anyone solved MF Tri Vista SACD problems?

I am starting this thread for my friend who bought this Musical Fidelity Tri Vista SACD player as used two years ago. Now the transport mechanism and also the servo board (we think) are broken. Does anyone know if there still is some company who can repair these players or modify them with new parts (transport+servo board). It seems to us that Musical Fidelity has moved forward and abandoned its old Tri-Vista customers. No help from their side at all. All info/help is appreciated.
mkilpi
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georgehifi
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MF has had QC issues in the past. It is a shame that this company could not build a better SACD spinner.
It had nothing to do with MF, the problem was as Alex ( aplhifi ) explained above in the Philips FURORE chipset, and it wasn’t just with MF, but with Krell and Philips and a few others that use this chipset.
The chip had a self decay that started from the first time it was switched on and was doomed to fail, and Philips wiped their hands of any come backs. (good on ya Philips)
So do not go near any SACD players from that era, as they may have this chip.

Cheers George
alextech
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Hello, I am a tech at Plurison/AudioPlusServices. We are the official service center (and we do have some authorized dealers and service centers elsewhere in America) for Musical Fidelity. I found this post googling the product I was about to fix. I just solved a problem with a KW SACD that wouln’t read any disc. We can’t promess to solve every single case but we do have a very high success rate. Feel free to contact the service department.
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jafant
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alextechWelcome! and Thank You for the update.  Happy Listening!
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johnmartin
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I'm waiting for three defective units from the local dealer for repair. Will update this thread in a few weeks. I've got a trained tech that repaired my Plinius integrated which was sitting for 5 years, a Krell amp that no one cared to repair.  Looking forward on this channel.
dan6054
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I'm glad i saw this thread.  I was reading a post on Facebook how a guy's friend had the Krell SACD Standard player. He was saying how the Transport was broken and if anyone knew how to fix it.  He didn't know about the faulty problems the Phillips Transport had in this Krell SACD player.  I sent him a link to this thread telling him about the Phillips Transport was bad. 
Here's what he wrote.  

A friend has dragged his older Krell SACD Standard player  It seems to have a problem.. I suspect the power supply for transport and front panel may be the fault .Opinions ?
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