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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@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.