Quality issues with Line6?

[dancrocker]

I ordered and received a POD X3 yesterday. It arrived to my house broken. I boxed it up and returned it for a refund (as opposed to a replacement). This brought back bad memories of when I bought their XDS-PLUS wireless system. The first one I received was also broken. The replacement is still giving me problems.

I've seen lots of good things said about Line6 products but my personal experience indicates they don't have quality under control. It's really frustrating. Am I the only one having this experience or are Line6 products known for quality problems like this? I'm very hesitant to buy any more Line6 products.

 

[ItsMichaelYeah]

I bought a line6 dl4 about a year and a half ago. It lock up after using it for 4 hours I returned it and got mxr carbon copy. I'm the only person I personally know that had an issue with the dl4 everyone else has there's and they still work perfectly. I think you might just have some kind of bad luck.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I've had a POD 2.0, Bass POD, Bass POD Pro, Bass POD XT, Bass POD XT Pro, POD XT, POD X3, DL4, Variax Bass, Lowdown Studio and M13. No problems whatsoever. Actually, that's not 100% true. I did have an issue with the Variax Bass when I sold it. It arrived DOA. Fortunately the person that bought it lived a few miles from a Line 6 service center. Turns out that the ribbon that connects the bridge to the CPU worked lose in transit. So, I had a minor issue caused by UPS.

 

[bazookachicken]

I was also sceptical about quality issues with the x3 live having heard some horror stories about the foot pedals breaking. However I read that they had changed them in new ones so I bit the bullet and got one. 6 months hard gigging and I've not had a problem touch wood! My personal opinion is they have to be looked at as a budget manufacturer, they build products to a budget and so will always have quality issues unfortunately people generally post reviews of bad experiences on the net but if the failure rate was that high compared to the number sold they'd be broke by now. Sorry to hear you've had a bad one I really like my x3 infact it replaced an Axe FX Ultra! As I have found it more usable for bass live and the guitar stuff i only really need for home. No doubt the Axe is a much finer piece of kit but I could buy nearly 6 x3's for the price of it

 

[scotch]

I've had no problems with any of the Line6 products I've bought, including:

Original BassPOD
POD X3
LowDown 150
FBV Express Pedal

All have worked perfectly for me!

 

[rasthedoctor]

No problem with my DL4 (10 years old), but the treadle on my BOD Live works only about 1/3 of the time (the other 2/3rds it is on max and effects nothing).

So my experience is 50/50.

 

[pnut166]

I`ve owned an LD150 and a Spider II guitar amp. They have both been outstanding. The LD150 looks like it fell off the back of a truck and it still works perfectly.

 

[wonderjosh]

I've had my POD X3 Live for a year now. It's been flawless.

 

[Crystalman85]

I bought a line 6 bass floor pod about a month ago and so far I had no issues with it. I dig the sounds on this bass modeling processor. sounds better than the rocktron utopia b100.

 

[Ric5]

I have been using my bass pod 1 for about 10 years with no problems.

 

[Jonyak]

I had to send back my new M9 as it stopped working after turning it on.

 

[Jools4001]

I've been using a Bass Pod Pro and power amp as my main rig (with a busy gig schedule) for around 6 years now. No problems at all.