My New CD Player/Stereo Didn't Even Last a Year, My CD Player/Stereo From the Early 1990s Still Works
Last night when I went to bed I was baffled and then astounded to find that the CD player/stereo I had purchased earlier this year would not even turn on. Nothing. I tried many sockets, I tried all sorts of other things. Opening (unscrewing the thing) would likely offer no remedy without knowing the equipment or even knowing what's wrong with it. No display, nothing.
That helped reaffirm what I said in recent years about production/manufacturing standards of "modern" things. Made cheaply, even if this particular one was boxed and not cheap, they just don't last very long and repairing them is close to impossible.
Right now I use the stereo I've had since I was a kid. It still works.
And they say only a "Luddite" would insist on "old things" and persist with what worked for many decades (in this case, 3 decades).
Tonight I'll have a look inside the "new" stereo and see if I can fix it somehow (never give up!). I very much doubt it. I don't even have equipment to test it with, nor the relevant skilled (which my grandfather possessed; he was a radio technician). █