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> Early 2000s receiver What brand? It's impressive when they last that long.
by gwbas1c 5y ago
> Early 2000s receiver
What brand? It's impressive when they last that long.
- dylan604 5y agoI still have a 1970s model head unit that sounds just as good today as when my dad passed it down to me as a teenager in the 90s. The thing I loved about it so much is it had A, B, A+B mode so that it could drive 4 speakers. It wasn't quad, but I could put 2 sets of stereo speakers in different rooms.
- davidferguson 5y agoIs that a Bang & Olufsen? They commonly had a similar system of main and "extra" speakers.
- Melatonic 5y agoYamaha
- klodolph 5y agoI can't remember ever having a receiver fail. Every receiver I've owned still functions. If I visit my dad, he still uses a receiver that he got in the 1980s. Older receivers (1980s) can blow an output transistor, which is a pain (fixable if you are skilled). Newer receivers are often built with integrated power amps that have extensive protection circuitry... they're truly impressive, and hard to accidentally damage. I've done some amplifier repair work. The amplifiers I repaired were typically much older (1950s, 1960s). The most common failure modes are fuses blowing, potentiometers failing, capacitors failing, and PCB-mounted jacks failing.
- gwbas1c 5y agoI had an Onkyo fail a little more than a year ago. It was probably ~7 years old. I suspect that it didn't have enough airflow, though. Anyway, I was ready for ARC2, so I just replaced it with a Sony. I'm extremely happy with the new one.