Al - I've got only great things to say about my H-K carousel (FL 8550) I've had it 4 years, bought it as a demo and it plays 12 hours a day on average - over 15,000 hours on it anyway - and so far the only maintenance it's needed is a general interior cleaning because it would spin past the next CD and then return (it should be said, I and others also used to smoke in the house - nasty American cigarettes).

Bren R.