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The Stereophile Reliability Survey

>Didn't S'phile publish a poll of their readers regarding >service/reliability in the past?

Yes. As other posters have pointed put, it is very difficult to
get hard data on this subject. Dealers know for sure, but they are
notoriously tight-lipped, as are manufacturers. So we asked our
readers as part of a late 1980s survey regarding their purchases as
a whole.

What was interesting about the results was that reliability was
downplayed by owners. Some brands that high failure rates in the
field -- Thiel, for example -- also had extraordinarily high
customer loyalty, not the least because Thiel handled product failures
so well.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile



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