Krell Cipher Issues?

The issue is the same as the Stereophile reviewer experienced...will not read a large portion of discs. The second unit also likes to just mute itself at any given time. If I see that "No Disc" message after loading another disc this darn thing is going for a swim!! And Bojack...my sentiments exactly, time for a refund!!! But who knows... maybe third times a charm? Shame though, it sounds sensational, I never new CD could sound this good!!

Damn shame. It sounds like a design problem on Krell's behalf.

Did you contact Krell?

Get a refund and buy an Esoteric player. Problems solved.

Had a similar problem with Cary 303t.

Went through 3 defective players, and finally got my money back. Too bad, because it sounded spectacular...........finally wound up with a new ARC cd9. So far, so good......

What ever became of quality control?

Yashu,

The Oct issue of Stereophile features a review of the ARC CD9 and the reviewer compared it to the Cipher and found the sound of these two players to be very, very similar and the only very slight difference was that the ARC is a little bit sweeter than the Cipher. And he can tell only with very careful A/B. If the 2 players were swapped in a blind test, he would be hard pressed to tell which is which.
It looks like if you love the sound of the Cipher, you can't go very wrong with the ARC.