User211
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Just thought it would be interesting to hear from people about bad experiences with audio equipment and it's reliability - or lack thereof. Or just any unfortunate encounters like dropping coffee over your $10,000 tube amp etc etc... you get the idea.
I have a few. Here they are:
1) Cleaning the tip of my Ortoton MC5000 to only to see the diamond come clean off!
2) Going through 3 pairs of ML Aerius replacement stators before I found a decent pair.
3) MF Tri-Vista SACD transport breaking - only to find they are irreplaceable!
4) Buying 16 Golden Dragon EL84s, to replace some Russian ones, only to find that the heaters went on about 8 of them with about 6 weeks!
5) Mission Cyrus on/off switch breaks. Output in one channel goes. Volume pot gets noisey. Selector switch fails to select input cleanly.
6) Thinking my Air Tight ATM2 was broken, when in fact the step-up transformer had a fuse that had blow that I didn't even realise was in there. That had me pretty wound up for a day or two
So c'mon - don't be shy or embarassed - and spill the beans... I am sure that some with be more amusing/catastrophic than mine
I have a few. Here they are:
1) Cleaning the tip of my Ortoton MC5000 to only to see the diamond come clean off!
2) Going through 3 pairs of ML Aerius replacement stators before I found a decent pair.
3) MF Tri-Vista SACD transport breaking - only to find they are irreplaceable!
4) Buying 16 Golden Dragon EL84s, to replace some Russian ones, only to find that the heaters went on about 8 of them with about 6 weeks!
5) Mission Cyrus on/off switch breaks. Output in one channel goes. Volume pot gets noisey. Selector switch fails to select input cleanly.
6) Thinking my Air Tight ATM2 was broken, when in fact the step-up transformer had a fuse that had blow that I didn't even realise was in there. That had me pretty wound up for a day or two
So c'mon - don't be shy or embarassed - and spill the beans... I am sure that some with be more amusing/catastrophic than mine
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