Re: Explain the advantages of PTP amps

DeeAa wrote:

On 7 marras, 14:17, dv...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


I'm pretty convinced that when it comes to personal electronics today,
it's all disposable. I do exhaustive consumer report research before
I buy anything, and the stuff I get still falls apart. MFX units,
cameras, DVD players...I've gone through it all. Probably a
coincidence, but whenever I've gone bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of
price, that stuff has somehow lasted the longest. Go figure.


Yep, I calculate anything I buy has a lifespan of max 5 years in
consumer electronics. In, say 15 past years I've gone thru 3 CD
players, 3 car players, 2 DVD players, 3 VCR's, 3 TV's, half a dozen
computer monitors, not even to mention all other stuff like
refridgerators and freezers, washing machines, water units, digicams,
MP3 players, whatever. Anything that lasts over 5 years and still
isn't obsolete is a small miracle these days.

"They don't build 'em like they use to."

I recently replaced my 20 year old Sony XBR TV (top of the line, over $1,000 in the mid 80's) with a barely used 32" LCD HDTV with 1080i and HDMI. I paid under $400 for the used LCD, with the original receipt and over a year and a half on the transferable warranty! KILLER craigslist find, but will it be working in 20 years???

Our clothes dryer? Just replaced it after 25 years. The washer lasted over 23 years. The new ones are nice, front load washer, stacking dryer, energy efficient, yada yada yada... (Improvements in technology) But I *do not* expect to get 20+ years of operation out of the new units.

Household machines are a little better but not by much. Maybe 10 yrs
operational time. Every bloody year I have to buy 4-5 new gadgets or
household items to replace broken ones. In the last 20 yrs I've
replaced every single household appliance from dishwasher to whatever,
and I suspect the cycle is about to start anew....one freezer is
already on its last limb now.

My 25+ year old refrigerator is still working like new. KNOCK ON WOOD! But I recently bought my third dishwasher. The first one lasted a long time. The second one? Not so long. The new one???


All the audio gear I bought in the 80's is well past its prime except
for speakers and music gear; however I have some stuff like a recorder
from the 60's that still works great and old cameras and whatnot. Just
the other day I noticed my digicam got to be 5 years old and lo and
behold now it suddenly only works for like 10 minutes before an all-
new battery is exhausted. Just the way it goes.


and patience. It was an eye-opener for me when I took my last "good"
VCR in for a repair, and the tech told me the innards of these things
are the same in a $300 unit as well as the cheapo $50 ones you get in
discount stores. All you get is a name and a better looking shell.

(turns out, the "good" VCR lasted only 2 years; the $50 cheap one I
got to replace it is still going strong 10 years later)


Depends. Usually whenever I've bought cheap VCRs or whatever, they've
been really lacking in features, worked slow or just plain annoying -
hard to aim the remote or whatever.

The last time I 'saved' some money I bought a cheap Sony DVD to
replace a 4-yr old Thompson that died...it drives me nuts that it
takes like 10 seconds to stop and open the bloody tray. And it won't
play divx or anything...really shitty in-play menu and whatever. A
friend bought an almost similar one but a notch higher in model range
and that works like a dream in comparison.

But music gear in general...seems to be really well built. My Marshall
and BOSS FX unit are like 20 years old already and they work just like
new, no detectable problems anywhere.

But how long do you figure Behringer or Digitech pedals will go? My nephew's RP50 has a broken switch cover (that actuates a microswitch on the board). Easy fix? NOPE, the damned switch cover is molded into the CASE!

Quality costs MONEY. Most people want new, instead of repairing something that may actually be much more reliable than new. And people want CHEAP. So we get Chinese products that look nice, but lack the quality we once expected.

Meanwhile, I'm happy playing old tube amps, using a toaster from the 50's, and driving a 30+ year old Mercedes. I figure that each one of them are more reliable than the modern replacement.


Cheers,

Dee

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