Company headquarters and warranty repairs

I agree that at those prices I’d ensure each has some US-based repair facility.  If they don’t I’d cross it off the list immediately because overseas shipping is very expensive these days, and who needs that when there are plenty of excellent DACs that can be serviced here?

They are are quality brands and Chord and Mola Mola have US distributors and excellent reputations..  I have compared the Tambaqui and Dave, and I clearly chose the Tambaqui.  I trust my dealer to take care of me (GTT Audio).

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I talked to the distributor for Mola Mola (GTT Audio) and they said their DACs need to go to the Netherlands but once they receive them they turn them around in one day.

I have two Ayre components and they are incredible to deal with. They do take about 1.5 weeks to turn around a repair (I’ve had one repair of a component I bought used). But after they do the repair they let it burn in for a couple of days and then test it again before sending it out.  So there is a perfectly excellent reason for taking a week+ for turnaround.

Given this I’ll audition all but unless the Mola Mola or Chord are improvements over Ayre, I’ll pick the Ayre.

I just traded my UK DAC (DAVE) for a Polish DAC (Lampizator).  I've never sent a piece of equipment in for repair.

Jerry