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?

zavato

Showing 2 responses by cdc

Starting out, almost everything I bought was defective. Fortunately things have improved in the last 5 years to 50%  maybe 70% okay.

For example, when I sent in my CDP for repair this year, I made the unpleasant discovery there was nothing to fix, Rather, all my CDP's are defective. The repair shop, who also own what they service, discovered their CDP's are defective too, haha.