Comment by ssl-3

Speakers sometimes die while sitting unused in their original shipping carton in a dry, climate-controlled room.

The adhesives can age. Foam surrounds can disintegrate. (Ask a Bose 901 owner about foam rot.)

They also can also die from use, and abuse. And finger-poking. And environmental conditions like moisture and UV light.

I know enough enough about old speakers to know that lasting forever isn't one of their usual traits.

Are stethoscopes really as bad as that?