Actually no on the replacement of my turntable. Took the turntable to repair cafe to have the RCA wires on the back reinforced. Item was taken where I could not discuss learn and supervise. fixer decided to remove the base for the tone arm, and disconnect the tonearm entirely..because he had never seen one. That is far from a typical repair. Could ring audio likely fix it? sure. Still I desired moving from a turntable powered by my receiver to one with its own power source..and bought a Sony. Still keeping the turntable damaged att he repair cafe though. Might add that I plugged speakers into receiver last night. They sound glorious! On Fri, 27 Jun 2025, Steve Litt via Talk wrote:
Karen Lewellen said on Thu, 26 Jun 2025 03:58:44 -0400 (EDT)
Cannot resist countering this idea with alternative experience. in 1990 I bought a Sony stereo system. Over the past several years I have replaced speakers, once..these are the large ones think hi fi unit. I have replaced the cd player once, a gift from my former fiance who upgraded me to a five cd unit. I just for the first time replaced the turntable this week, because a repair cafe visit went reprehensibly wrong. still the new Sony turntable will plug right into the 1990 Sony receiver. Twice I have gotten the receiver checked out, both times by ring audio, which frankly stuns me given how often I have moved it. because of my work, equipment is an investment..and over time finding quality repair hands have paid off. Your work in the field ended before I even bought my current unit. To be sure, especially computers, seem to be built for breaking. A solid stereo system? Speaking very personally, they are built to be loved. I might add that the logistics in finding a replacement are far far more complicated in my case..but that is rather well known around here smiles. Kare
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I think you just made my case. You mentioned four replacements, two "checkouts" and one repair. The repair was so bad you needed to replace.
Now let me add to the reasons to repair instead of replace. A 20th century appliance is built so simply that it's easy to repair, and there are repair people who still know how to repair it. If you were to replace it with a 2025 appliance, that appliance would go bad in 4 years and would cost the purchase price to fix. So I just made your case :-)
So if you have a high quality possession, AND there are still people around who know how to repair it, AND it doesn't cost a fortune to repair, AND there are still parts available for it right, AND the whole thing isn't worn out to the point that if you fix it now, something else will break in 3 months, over and over again, then repair is by far the best option.
As far as DVD players, I don't know if you're looking for internal, USB or standaline, but I'm seeing lots of them for under $100.00 at Newegg. No competent repair person will remove a screw for less than $70.00.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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