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 ozzy62

Had to replace a motor on a Nottingham Spacedeck

Bad output transformer on a Music Reference RM9. Luckily Roger had a spare even though the amp was out of production 

Bad output transformer on a Canary CA-160. These were monoblocks and the cost to repair was more than their value. I sold the pair back to Canary. Was not impressed with their customer service

Blown tweeter on a Silverline Sonata. Replaced with no drama

Bass driver went out on a Von Schweikert VR4. Albert sent one out promptly and a UPS label for the bad driver. Great customer service, RIP Albert 

 

@orthomead 

I sent it to the importer in CA. They repaired the motor and sent it back. The Nott is long gone. I replaced it with a WT Amadeus, but now have a VPI Aries II.