What gear broke down on you and how long did it last?
Focusrite Saffire PRO 26 io
2009-2019
Randomly Stopped Working
Orange TT15JR Signature #4 Jim Root Terror 15-Watt Guitar Amp Head
2015-2023
impedance mismatch with my 8yr old Harley Benton G212 for some reason
Hughes and Kettner TubeMeister 18 Head
2015-2023
impedance mismatch with my 8yr old Harley Benton G212 for some reason
My megafm, had it 2 or 3 years, suddenly: burned smell, thats it.
Miss it.
And my lxr does what it want. I donât count that as defect, more like random bug encounters.
once i bought Command Station MP-7 for parts â but managed to reinstall the boot loader and update the OS, so now itâs working, with partially malfunctional pads & buttons (requires spares to repair).
also, once i managed to fry something in my PreenFM2 (plugged wrong PSU in).
my technician repaired it.
I had a Focusrite interface stop working. Turned out the power adapter had failed. They sent out a free replacement.
I was worried it might take them a while to get it to me, so I also bought an aftermarket one from myVolts to hedge my bets. The one from Focusrite arrived the next day; the one from myVolts took the best part of a week.
Got a used Kaossilator 2S. Turns out, one internal button had fallen off already. Still used it a bit (it wouldnât be enjoyable even in great condition anyway), then the screen died.
Moved into another city in late 2022, the humidity claimed a lot of gear, still havenât fixed most of it:
Donât let humidity destroy your gear.
Beyerdynamics DT880 bought in 1998, cable issues dec â24.
Roland Jx-305 bought 1998 worked flawlessly untill 2 weeks ago (used it as mastermidi keyboard last decade) it suddenly wonât boot anymore.
Aturia keystep - It worked well, ate some dust, traveled and got banged up but still lasted for years. Itâs in the trash now but I have no complaints.
Motu 828 and M8 - Both broke down after some time due to incompetent engineering or planned obsolesence (hot caps). The M8 didnât work on PC for about a year after release and broke down after a few years. Ownership of both was a nightmare, stay away.
Reverbs
Sony HR-MP5 FX units. They were the increasingly flakey initial I replaced the internal battery, then they were just occasionally flakey.
Replaced them with a Rolands SRV-3030 which was less flakey, but still too unreliable for live use.
Bought an Eventide Space which eventually needed service, now itâs back to perfectly reliable.
Oh god, my workbench of doom.
1/3 received broken somehow (intentionally to fix or not disclosed by seller), 1/3 broke while using, 1/3 me disassembling to mod/bend and then not able to put back together for time, while the fixings lept out into the universe.
Iâve only lived in humid areas, I guess my gear is kept pretty climate protected but hurricanes definitely fuck things up.
For it being such a solid and heavy unit, I sure went through a lot of cry-baby wah wah pedals back in the day. I donât know if the build quality is better these days but at one point I had a back up pedal on hand âjust in caseâ because they kept breaking (not physically, but functionally).
We need @sezare56 to tell us about all of his broken pocket operators too.
Oh these spoiled children toysâŚtoo small to be repared. I wonât talk about it more, I just wonât buy anything from them, even if they drastically improved everything. Really bad experience.
(Personal point of view, enjoy your expensive compact gear !)
I remember a ribbon thing about it, I was about to buy a faulty one.
On topic, I had bad experiences with B-Stock products, now I avoid them. If a product is faulty and if the buyer donât want it to be repaired and wait, they may want to return it WITHOUT SAYING it is faulty.
I did it once for Octatrack MKII, bent encoder, very hard to turn it with 1 finger.
Saw a 2nd hand, 500⏠less, 35% cheaper.
Pristine not very far. Bought!
I sent the new faulty one back without talking about the problem. 
Had obviously faulty B-Stock with TE PO33, KMI K-BoardâŚ
I guess they just check power onâŚ
Yeah I had been living in tropics for 6-7 years by then, and I still wasnât prepared for 98-99% humidity.
No synth ever broke on me. But, my yamaha trbx 504 bassâ truss rod nut rounded after just couple times of turning it with the provided tool. They would not take it back or send a new neck and I was so mad. Luckily I put chrome flat wounds on and set it up at the time and it is still in working condition with just a bit high action but good intonation.
UDO Super 6 Desktop:
DDS2 of one of the voice cards dead on arrival⌠took me a good hour to debug and fix.
Great soldering and quality control! 
Roland XV-5050
Some patches/samples distort weirdly/awefully, others play fine. Iâve found a sort of repair guide a while ago but it involves reflowing the rom chips IIRC. And I dread trying this myself. No idea when it broke TBH. Turns out I used it for the same few patches for a long time which were magically unaffected.
Arturia Minibrute 1
The output is super noisy and distorted. Just happened one day. Itâs a shame I really like this synth.
Two focusrite audio interfaces each with one of the two headphones out broken. Due to clumsiness on my part. Probably the easiest of them all to fix.
Mutable Instruments Braids
Broken trigger input. 
my waldorf micro q turned up⌠(2nd hand)
didnt workâŚlots of loud crackling , popping , horrible noises.
still doesnt work after about 3 or 5 years.
it looks immaculate ⌠sounds like shitâŚiâm not plugging any headphones in again just in case they get damaged.
rockit g5 speaker . lasted about six months âŚnow it sounds like⌠nothing.
Octatrack developed a button and light fault.
Replaced the UI board, works fine ever since. 10 years still going.
Lyra 8, dodgy delay pot. They sent me a replacement pot for free, I did the repair myself. I think If bought it 2017? Still going.
SH101, power switch died, top 5 keys on the keyboard stopped working. Repaired it myself.
Made in 1983? Still works.
Nintendo switch lite, joystick died, replaced it myself. No idea when it was made, still works.
Moog sub 37 mod wheel went weird, fixed it myself. Bought it in 2016, still works.
Oh man Iâve had to send back various joy con controllers for repair at least 20 times. At least itâs free and no questions asked, but what an unreliable design.
