I can't waitYou'll like the new thread I'm about to start.
I must be incredibly lucky: my old Yamaha 2600 AV integrated still works impeccably despite being more than 15 years old - it's finishing its life at a friend's house without the money and it's on all day to play music.
My old Yamaha Aventage 3020 AV integrated, despite being 15 years old, still works like a charm at my brother's house, who inherited it. And my Denon 3600 AV integrated, which must be 4 or 5 years old, still works like a charm... and it's turned on every day for hours on end to listen to music (it's my kob)... Ditto all my power amps...
there's only one 15-year-old HK 1.0 preamp, whose power supply heats up enormously and starts to send noise into the amp (under warranty, it had been changed) so it's in its box.
And, of course, CD, Blu-ray and SACD players (Sony (3 models), Denon, Marantz, Pioneer, Panasonic and Cayin) that have broken down or are starting to break down, due to unreliable laser mechanics... In fact, I've just ordered a repair kit for a Sony XA9000ES (sold at a very high price when it came out, and a magnificent machine)... But I'm not even sure that a Sony station will be able to repair it...
I've got a collection of them whose combined new prices would enable me to buy a pair of Genelec 851s and a cabinet... including a blue-screen-sick PS3, reconditioned by Sony free of charge under warranty... but which didn't last more than 3 years after this refurbishment...
Even an old Airport terminal that's been permanently switched on for I don't know how long hasn't broken down... My satellite TV demodulator, like the one for IPTV which heats up like a boiler (it's hot!), has not broken down, nothing...
So the fact that a small Chinese DAC breaks down after 4 or 5 years bothers me less than not being able to repair a CD player sold for 4000 or 5000 euros when it first came out... or not being able to buy an original lamp for a Panasonic projector because the brand no longer sells them... 5 years after the last model to use it was discontinued...
A projector sold for 4,400 euros some 15 years ago... And still perfectly functional and excellent... when I wrote to Panasonic the reply was joking: “we no longer sell parts for this projector. We recommend you buy one of our new models.”