Reliability - what’s your experience been?

I’ve been into high fi since the 1970’s. Fortunately, equipment breakdown has been few and far between.

As best as I can recall, I needed the following repairs:

1- new motor on a Thorens turntable (noisy motor)

2- Repair of an Aiwa tape deck (noisy channel)

3- Bryston amp (broken power switch)

4- Proceed amp (would not turn on)

5- CAL cd player (noisy channel)

6- Bricasti dac (no sound- just static)

7- Simaudio cd player (failed transport)

8- Pass integrated amp (intermittent noise)

not bad for almost 50 years experience. How has your experience been?

zavato11-10-2024 12:48pm

asvjerry Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,067 posts 11-11-2024 at 04:17am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete ...at the risk of invoking any latent bad karma of an unknown source.... Nothing, with the exception of 'puter monitors, which theres' been a couple. Those got recycled, most else given away or sold. The fate of 'vintage' computers is that any upgrades are generally improbable or financially pointless... shrug Don't hate me. I seem to be able to fix most everything else but broken hearts..... .....but that's because people don't let me near them with a knife.... ;)