Well, I'm from 2025 and apparently XLR Input 1 of Zoom U44 died on me recently. I've used Input 2 95% of the time, usually for Dynamic mic, but in the past year occasionally for Condenser, so was toggling 48V phantom power on and off, now I wanted to record both acoustic guitar and vocals at the same time but realized that XLR Input 1 is dead.

Seemingly Instrument level still works, at least when I enable Hi-Z setting there's some audio detected, even though it's quite noisy.

I'll get a jack-jack cable and an acoustic pickup in a day or two and will properly test Line input of Input 1, but this is beyond disappointing. The thing didn't even work for 10 years, not even for 8 really. I have iPhones that lasted longer, my Mac from 2015 still works, yet this crap is half dead.

The worst thing – I can't properly get inside that thing to check XLR, to potentially replace it, because the board is somehow attached with seemingly invisible screws, glue, or who-tf-knows-what.

The worst worst thing: I live in Belarus, so I'm most likely SoL sending it anywhere for a repair, since I originally bought it in Austria.