Your Worst Audio Breakdown


Checking out the forum today and I saw mention of a posters' 1st breakdown, and another about a fella with a broken tape deck wondering about fixing it. He than tells us that 3 other parts of his rig are in need of repair (whoa!). Got me to thinking, in close to 30 yrs of being in this hobby, I ruined a cartridge (my fault!) and I blow fuses on my amp from time to time. That's it! I'm wondering; am I just extremely lucky or what!?

Equipment failure is the nightmare of any audiophile, what's been your experience with gear breakin' down?
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Showing 1 response by elizabeth

Worst was a Sony laserdisk player. It constantly failed, got sent in, got back and still had the same issue.
Got Pioneer LD and no problems...
Then next Sony biggest Wega, just went South. Never did get it fixed.
Still I have a love hate with Sony..

Most disappointing audio item was a Sony digital preamp, the very first one. Bells and whistles soon wore off. What a chunk of trash.

Most frustrating was a Counterpoint preamp.
I should have kept it though.. It really sounded wonderful when it worked.

The vast majority of stuff i have owned worked fine, never an issue from plenty of equipment from ARC, Bryston, Adcom..