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 1 response by sls883

I've only had one problem in 45 years of this hobby.  Not counting the blown tweeters in my Altec Lansing speakers (some dumbass cranked them too long during a frat party).

I bought a used conrad-johnson Premier 17LS2 preamp.  It was just old enough to start having issues.  I didn't want to mess with trying to get it fixed, so I returned it.  

Never had any trouble with my conrad johnson PV-14L.