Tore myself another asshole

[Eelco]

Quite the opposite of a stroke of genius.
For the last 14 years i have been listening to my NS-1000 via a NAD C740 receiver.
Long story shortened.
Bought the Yamahas about 35 years ago with a NAD class A amp. Superb sound.
Twenry years ago a glas of red wine sipped into the amp instead of the wine in me.
Having not much financial headroom and a wife wanting a radio I bought the NAD C740. Superb.
For the money.
So finally last week I was able to buy the two Quad 504-2 monoblocks, advertised on this forum by John.
Wonderfull person to deal with, by the way. Sorry John, the rest of this story might be a bit of a shock.
Shipping went fine, connected them to the Yamahas. Revelation.
So much space, low end tight, seperation. Happy person.
But then I wanted to try the other speakercables.
Now i should confess I never changed the speakerterminals on the Yamahas.
I SHORTEND THE LEADS ON ONE OF TE SPEAKERS.
So. One quad 405-2 demolished.
Man do I feel sick, stupid, gutted.....
Luckily I have been able to contact Duncan(Tubehunter), who has kindly agreed to try bringing the defective powerboard back to live.
So there may still be a happy ending.
I had to get this of my chest, tell about some nice people on this forum and I have to kill the time waiting for the board to return.

[JohnJo]

D'oh. Oh well, not the end of the world, highly annoying, yes but sortable.

Hang in there bro! and thanks for the kind words :cool:

Was talking to a nurse today who used to work in the local children's hospital. Spent a year there one week when my daughter was born. 5 minutes there will put a power amp problem into perspective.

Still really annoying though :steam::D

[Eelco]

Wise words, John.

[Macca]

Well at least the amp can be fixed or replaced. Not so easy to do that with those speakers so it could have been worse.

have to confess I am so prone to doing this sort of thing that I never swap anything around without powering down absolutely everything.

I see people swapping speakers in and out with the amps still on and it makes me wince every time. But they always seem vey confident doing it.

[Haselsh1]

I see people swapping speakers in and out with the amps still on and it makes me wince every time.

You and me both. I always power down the power amp.

[Eelco]

I had them switched off. But on listening with the new cables, i wanted to turn the speaker a little bit outwards. Being a ns-1000 it's up close against the wall.And that's when the cable shorted.

[maxrob200]

Yamaha NS-1000 has really flimsy speaker connectors. I have seen some rewired with WBT speaker connectors for a good speaker wire connection

[drSM]

U arent the only one to f....k up and wont be that last Eelco
dont feel so bad
I once connected the two +ve spkr terminals on the amp to the one spkr.
shld have had the back of amp well lit and put the glasses on
Blew one OTR on a sansui au111. Ouch... that was difficult to put right,
anyway easier to fix the Quad than if u somehow damaged the NS1000

[Edward]

Ouch - I would have been very furious with myself if that had happened to me. You seem to be taking it well.

I try to use electrical insulation tape to separate inputs or outputs whenever I think there may be a risk of connections touching each other through movement etc.

Just to think, as JohnJo knows, I seriously considered getting those 405s from him. Blame me for not getting them as you would not have had this problem if I had. :)

Good to hear the problem can be sorted.

[JohnJo]

Good of Duncan to offer to sort it out for you Eelco, he's the man!

[tubehunter]

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Happy Days

[Eelco]

Very happy days.
It's been raining for three days .
I've been sitting here feeling stupid and missing that wonderful sound.
Did order some good speakerposts for the Yamahas .
Duncan, as said before. You're the man.

[JohnJo]

:)