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Trivista remote performance

Hi, Not an audiophile question but!. Any Trivista owners experiencing poor remote performance? I have just replaced my Krell amp with the Musical Fidelity Trivista Amp, and its performance is wonderful. However not so the remote. I have to virtually be within a few feet for the thing to work at all. Just curious if any one else has the same experience.
michael_lucas
thsalmon
348 posts
 
I have a TriVista SACD. It uses the same remote. Mine works very well. Make sure you have strong batteries and try it again.
fatparrot
1,314 posts
 
Ah, remote control problems! I agree with Thsalmon, one of the easiest problems to fix, but very few ever check their remote batteries. I got caught myself a few times with this problem! Also, if you happen to have sunlight hitting the remote sensor on your TriVista, this will cause the remote to perform poorly, as well.
quietcity
5 posts
 
I have a Musical Fidelity NuVista CDP and NuVista M3 Integrated amp. Both these pieces are wonderful, but both came with bargain basement, butt-ugly remotes. The amp remote works ok most of the time, though I don't get too ambitious with it. The CD remote works kinda sorta, on every other Wednesday, as long as I push the buttons OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Cussing helps. And I need to be within 6 feet of the CDP. Yes, I have replaced the batteries, and cleaned the contacts and cleaned the sensors and made sacrifices to the audio gods.
I thought I could solve this problem, and reduce two remotes to one in the process, by purchasing a Musical Fidelity universal remote. I am not sure why I thought this would be a good idea, because of course, I now have ANOTHER MF remote that doesn't work so good. At least I only have to cuss at one remote now instead of two.
I don't get how MF can make such fabulous and attractive gear and then include such bad remotes. Everything is a trade off in the audiophile world, I suppose.
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