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?

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@immatthewj  my CDP did not play clearly on certain songs. So sent it in for repair. The repair guru has the same CDP and once I brought the noise issue to his attention and he tried the same songs, he could hear it on his CDP as well. So he told me there was nothing to fix and it was a design error. Go figure.

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@jhills I have to echo your experience with Bryston service. Service was first rate. 

@ozzy62   I'm curious what you replaced you Nott TT motor with.  Do you still have the Nottingham?

@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.