has anyone had problems with wadia service?

as a update, when wadia was made aware of the problems with the service department (and apparently i have not been the only person who had been trying to contact them) they actually did something to address my comments. for example, if you call the service department now you get a message explaining that they are moving the service department and will be shut down until after labor day. yeah, that's a bummer if your unit is out of commission now, but at least now you know what is going on. besides, companies don't relocate every month, so you can think of the current situation as being of an extraordinary nature, so you can't judge wadia based on current conditions.

from my interactions with wadia (after i got past the automated messaging system) i get the sense that they will attempt to accommodate people to the extent that they are able. but i think that the takeaway here for wadia is that it is critically important to keep customers informed and to not leave customers on a lurch when extraordinary conditions exist.

They should have handled their move better and had a plan to take care of their customers. I bought a 121 that didn't work properly in my system a couple weeks ago. Called and didn't get a response to a VM in 24 hrs. Since I read about their communication issues I called back and got a very nice and concerned cust serv rep on the phone who said he would run it by engineering and get back to me. It has been two weeks and I haven't heard back. That's too long in my book. No worries though, my online dealer has already swapped it out for the Rega that works perfectly. So I'm not really unhappy in the end. I've had no issues with their phone system or emails-they just didn't call back (yet). Maybe the note flew out the window on the highway to their new facility.

I'm confident that all these issues will be resolved eventually but in the mean time better have patience.

08-24-12: Bizango1
They should have handled their move better and had a plan to take care of their customers. I bought a 121 that didn't work properly in my system a couple weeks ago. Called and didn't get a response to a VM in 24 hrs. Since I read about their communication issues I called back and got a very nice and concerned cust serv rep on the phone who said he would run it by engineering and get back to me. It has been two weeks and I haven't heard back. That's too long in my book. No worries though, my online dealer has already swapped it out for the Rega that works perfectly. So I'm not really unhappy in the end. I've had no issues with their phone system or emails-they just didn't call back (yet). Maybe the note flew out the window on the highway to their new facility.

it seems to me that the fundamental issue is that you just didn't like the unit. if you don't like the produce *and* you perceive poor service - that's doubly bad.

in my case, i actually like the cd player, and my previous customer service encounters had actually been pretty good. my sense is that the current problem is temporary; the biggest problem that i had was that i just didn't know what was going on which led me to wonder if the company was going under.

Paperw8,
Did I say I didn't like it? I DID like the sound, the look, features, built-in headphone amp, even the brand name. Two things I didn't like: it clearly did not function as designed and the Wadia guy said so, and no response after two weeks to an acknowledged operational flaw. The DAC's relays clicked loudly and continuously whenever the transport was paused, clicked at the beginning of each song, and frequently cut off the first few notes. This wasn't a matter of liking but a matter of working. It just didn't work. The Rega I have now works perfectly in the same setup.