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

rooze Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 656 posts 11-15-2024 at 07:53pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I've got a bunch of stuff here that needs repairing, most of it tube. My worst experience was lending a local audio club member a pair of beautiful Cary Audio V12R monoblocks and having them returned to me with one side not working. It needed a new power TX - $900 plus shipping. Apparently, even though the tubes were well used, he decided to set the amps up in his basement system and leave them running overnight to 'warm them up'. Some spurious popping noises were heard but the amps were not turned off. Always pains me to think back to being on the receiving end of someone's foolishness.
rooze Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 656 posts 11-17-2024 at 09:05pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @immatthewj From memory the V12R was rated at 100w /channel. Yes, a lot of tubes, but a very cute looking amp in its deep red finish...