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I recently bought a pair of um3x's used from a forum member. That member said they were bought new only 2 weeks previously. The left earphone was missing some of the support area around the cable and part of the clear plastic had been chipped entirely away. Obviously someone had tried to disassemble the earpiece. Perhaps the factory trying to repair the infamous rattle and then repackage the phones as new... who knows?
Sandy
| Originally Posted by Nemosan /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hello forumites. I've just purchased a set of UM3X going by the recommendations of fellow members on this forum. Well, actually I purchased the Nuforce NE-7M first because I needed a replacement for my old Shure e3. Although great for the price point I thought they were too bass heavy with very recessed mids. And the left bud started to fail only after one week. So I decided to find another pair of IEMs and after many hours reading the posts on Head-Fi I went and purchased the UM3X. The box was shrink wrapped but I didn't check the contents at the shop to see if everything was in order. When I begun unpacking it at home I flipped open the front cover but I couldn't see the phones through the window because the tray contents were not rotated the correct position to see them. Strange I thought, and maybe they were previously opened... Anyway after opening the box and taking the phones out I immediately noticed the right bud had a scuff mark on the black plastic part below the Westone name. Its like someone had taken a file and filed a mark on it. Also glue residue is visible around the cable relief and the nozzle. I was surprised, and shocked, seeing this. A top of the range and expensive phone with extremely bad build quality. It seems this has already been mentioned in previous posts in this thread. However, those posts were several months ago, and one would think Westone would have improved their production quality by now. The quality control date is written as 7/09, which I presume is July 2009, so my phones are quite recently built. Does anyone else's UM3X have such bad build quality? I've read this entire thread and its only been mentioned once on page 42. Regarding the QC paper slips. One was an original inside the foam tips bag, while the other was a photocopy bundled with the rest of the documentation. However the initials of the inspector is different on each of them. Is this normal? Also apart from a yellow errata sheet saying the UM3X specs on the box are wrong (which are the same as the errata), the documentation does not mention the UM3X at all and the front of my warranty card has a picture of the Clear UM2, not a UM3X. Is this just a standard warranty card for all Westone products, or have I been given the wrong card? I'm a little bit worried with all this. Do I have a fake? They sure don't look or, more importantly, sound fake. Are the UM3X the only phones which have clear front and black back? Could they have been previously used, returned, and re-shrink wrapped? I have bought them from an authorised Westone reseller (listed on the Westone website) so they should be genuine. Am I just worrying too much after spending so much on them? I would appreciate if members could answer some of my queries. Please put my mind to rest so I can enjoy these amazing phones! Oh, and the sound? They sound like aural sex. 
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I recently bought a pair of um3x's used from a forum member. That member said they were bought new only 2 weeks previously. The left earphone was missing some of the support area around the cable and part of the clear plastic had been chipped entirely away. Obviously someone had tried to disassemble the earpiece. Perhaps the factory trying to repair the infamous rattle and then repackage the phones as new... who knows?
Sandy
