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rh2y
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 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject:
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| T7 wrote: | Well, I gave it a few months in hopes Waldorf would work out the poor hardware quality, then went and bought another Blofeld today.
My third Blofeld has the same problems: flaking paint and noisy headphone amp.
I'm willing to accept that Waldorf just spec'd a really poor headphone amp, but the flaking paint is unacceptable.
I wonder if the $4000. Stromberg will have the same crappy paint?  |
I'm not sure, but is the noisy headphone out addressed in one of the firmware updates? Did you check your firmware version? 1.04 is the latest. Hope that helps, maybe.
I guess I got lucky; my Blofeld has good paint and doesn't seem noisy. The latest firmware update fixed the issue I was having with spurious crosstalk between rotary encoders (you'd turn one encoder, but another one would register as turning, also).
Russ
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T7
Joined: Jun 19, 2006
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Location: Cali
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| rh2y wrote: | | T7 wrote: | Well, I gave it a few months in hopes Waldorf would work out the poor hardware quality, then went and bought another Blofeld today.
My third Blofeld has the same problems: flaking paint and noisy headphone amp.
I'm willing to accept that Waldorf just spec'd a really poor headphone amp, but the flaking paint is unacceptable.
I wonder if the $4000. Stromberg will have the same crappy paint? |
I'm not sure, but is the noisy headphone out addressed in one of the firmware updates? Did you check your firmware version? 1.04 is the latest. Hope that helps, maybe.
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I updated the firmware. No improvement. I can live with the headphone amp issue. The crap paint is what burns me.
The paint is so fragile on these things, I'd be reluctant to dust it off with a cloth for fear of rubbing the lettering off.  |
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T7
Joined: Jun 19, 2006
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Location: Cali
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Update:
Waldorf and the US distributor assure me these are isolated problems from the same early bad batch, and say they're gonna replace it with a new defect-free one.
I'm waiting to hear back from them as to when and how I will get the new one.
We'll see. *crosses fingers* |
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zoonewbie
Joined: Oct 18, 2006
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Location: midlands
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Its obvious that waldorf have a few problems that need ironing out but I assure you all this synth is worth the wait... Its now my go to synth for anything and everything and so simple to use.
I have been using mine constantly for a year now and all bugs I had have been fixed in the OS upgrades however there are minor ones that do pop up which to be honest I have ways around easily i.e. when using random patch generator it uses some effects obviously but If your happy with your randomness and want to save it, It saves different effects altering the sound, so before saving turn off affects, save then add same affects and resave.
I love this synth! |
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