I bought an iFi Zen Stream and was initially very happy with it (although I’m not a fan of the 1950’s Jetson’s aesthetics). Then I ran into a technical issue and found their customer support to be basically non existent. I even reached out to the US distributor who, to his credit, tried to help but even HE couldn’t get any help from them. Now, I realize iFi offers relatively budget products, but at a company of that size I find it inexplicable that they couldn’t implement some semblance of product support. I mean, charge a couple bucks more per product and they could well afford at least decent customer support. Well, I’ll never buy another one of their products ever again.
That said, if there’s a high-end product where you can’t get customer support either from a dealer or the company, screw’em. There’s no excuse for that whatsoever.