View Full Version : Hi-Fi Cock-ups. What's Your Biggest Disaster?
walpurgis
21-02-2018, 09:52
I suspect most of us have had 'incidents' when messing about with equipment. Tell us about anything you wish you'd not done or about any spectacular disasters that have occured.
I lent a very nice Audio Concepts Legend P300 MOSFET power amp to a mate to provide sound for a big party. The invited prat of a 'DJ' managed to connect the speaker outputs to the mains while nobody was looking at what he was up to and fried the feedback boards. The amp survived after a bit of first aid, which is less than can be said for my mate's Harbeth HL Monitors. The cones were literally blown out and coils melted. I saved the day by popping back with my Tannoy Eatons which gave good service through the whole night.
I also nearly killed myself tinkering with an old Teleton reel to reel recorder. I was reaching inside the back to adjust something and got an almighty electric shock. I'd forgotten the first rule. Disconnect the damn power!! Lucky my elbow earthed against the steel frame, so the rest of my body didn't get fried. :rolleyes:
I blew up a pair of rather rare and now quite valuable full range Whitely Stentorian speaker drive units by putting too much power throught them. I wasn't going very loud, honest! ;)
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Zoidburg
21-02-2018, 10:19
The Mrs "dusted" my cartridge which resulted in a seriously bent cantilever, fair paly to her though she coughed up for a new one.
Falling through my stereo i guess. damaged lots of things i thought but its all fixed now and or replaced. wasnt even able to blame drink as i dont, now.
walpurgis
21-02-2018, 11:12
The Mrs "dusted" my cartridge which resulted in a seriously bent cantilever, fair paly to her though she coughed up for a new one.
You should have told the missus it was a ZYX Omega and got two and a half grand out of her! :D
Done the same thing myself. I obliterated the stylus on my first DL-103 with a duster! :rolleyes:
Shovel_Knight
21-02-2018, 11:29
I once sold a good amplifier very cheaply because I thought it didn’t work.
Later I realized that it didn’t have the links between its pre and power sections fitted... :doh:
Hearing my Grado RS1 squealing from across the room due to an RCA grounding issue, so my headphone amp decided to blow out the drivers.
A mate gave me a top of the range expensive head unit for my car audio system. Started to install and within seconds it went bang, small puff of smoke and an acrid smell. Don't think I ever owned up to that misdemeanour - until now. :whistle:
walpurgis
21-02-2018, 11:53
I once sold a good amplifier very cheaply because I thought it didn’t work.
Later I realized that it didn’t have the links between its pre and power sections fitted... :doh:
That's really funny. Shame though. :)
Managed to short a power amp out using bare wire connection with speaker cable. It made a noise like a machine gun and then the magic smoke came out. It smoked for several hours.
Worst one was I bought a 'lucky' lace tea towel off of a gypsy woman. About a week later got a brand new Goldring Eroica MC cart on my TT. Sounded great! Two days after getting it I walked past it whilst holding the 'lucky' tea towel, caught the stylus tip and ripped it right off.
I'd used my credit card to buy it so called them to see if I could claim a refund for damage, as per their relentless TV advertisements. Needless to say they denied all knowledge of there being any 'insurance' on card purchases. £180 down the drain.
Beobloke
21-02-2018, 12:57
Setting the output stage bias on a 1980s B&O Beomaster 5000 receiver - multimeter probe slipped, touched another component and bang - output transistor fried. :(
In my defence, you do need three very small hands to do this with ease and I know of better people than me who have done exactly the same thing!
Running 4 Ditton 44’s through my amp! Then silence lol
" Improving " a SME 3009 arm by fitting decent RCA sockets instead of the old 4 pin unit and managing to break a tiny wire hidden in the depths of it. The upside was I sent it off to J7 for a rewire and it really was much improved, albeit with a price tag.
WESTLOWER
21-02-2018, 13:55
I used to DJ back in the early 1990's, a venue I played at had ceiling 'swing mounted' deck platform (swing being a platform of wood on chains to the ceiling) on it, 2 x Technics SL-1200s and a mixer in the middle. The DJ booth was up high from the dance floor...
Half way through the evening pretty worse for wear on very Exotic Woodbines and Alcohol, I bent down to sort some records out, on straightening up managed to upend the swing platform with my shoulder and the resulting two Technics SL-1200s and a mixer ended up 15ft below on the dance floor in what can only be described as a ferkin' chaotic mess. Everything had literally exploded into a million pieces on impact.
I kid you not it looked like a Modern Art installation!
My short lived DJ career never recovered!
I used to DJ back in the early 1990's, a venue I played at had ceiling 'swing mounted' deck platform (swing being a platform of wood on chains to the ceiling) on it, 2 x Technics SL-1200s and a mixer in the middle. The DJ booth was up high from the dance floor...
Half way through the evening pretty worse for wear on very Exotic Woodbines and Alcohol, I bent down to sort some records out, on straightening up managed to upend the swing platform with my shoulder and the resulting two Technics SL-1200s and a mixer ended up 15ft below on the dance floor in what can only be described as a ferkin' chaotic mess. Everything had literally exploded into a million pieces on impact.
I kid you not it looked like a Modern Art installation!
My short lived DJ career never recovered!
:lol: Great stuff !!!! Just the sort of ham fisted thing I am capable of!
Not equipment ruining but associated -
I made myself a diy RCM ,and found a quite nice original vintage copy of The Wizard of Oz ,soundtrack Vinyl lp , the vinyl was quite pristine but dusty and dirty as hell , so after careful soaking and cleaning , accompanied by some diy red wine disposal , I bent down to pick the lp off the plater without turning it off . The record came up on the twist ,grabbed the spindle and the whole thing was scrawpted against the edge of the metal platter leaving a horrible line all along it !!
Plus the fact the LP belonged to the wife !! They go for £40 usually
montesquieu
21-02-2018, 14:50
Demoing a Krell KSA100 with my monitor golds. Not sure quite how it happened but there was a spark at the input, followed moments later by a smell of burning paper ... left side went D.C. and had caused a 15 in Tannoy cone to go up in flames from the centre like the map at the start of Bonanza.
£600 for a double re-cone at Lockwoods (to keep the drivers matching) about half covered on house insurance. Ouch. Thankfully the voice coil was fine.
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walpurgis
21-02-2018, 15:01
Half way through the evening pretty worse for wear on very Exotic Woodbines and Alcohol, I bent down to sort some records out, on straightening up managed to upend the swing platform with my shoulder and the resulting two Technics SL-1200s and a mixer ended up 15ft below on the dance floor in what can only be described as a ferkin' chaotic mess. Everything had literally exploded into a million pieces on impact.
I kid you not it looked like a Modern Art installation!
That's bloody hilarious!! Unfortunate, but definitely hilarious!
I also had a huge DJ'ing disaster. I may describe it later. (and I mean huge, the carnage was monumental :eek:)
WESTLOWER
21-02-2018, 15:43
£600 for a double re-cone at Lockwoods (to keep the drivers matching) about half covered on house insurance. Ouch. Thankfully the voice coil was fine.
Ouch!!!
Not a hifi disaster but audio related. We were playing a gig at The Richmond in Brighton, there was a large house PA with their own engineer so we only had to supply the backline. I had a really nice Ampeg combo that was perfect for the job and we were having a great gig until I got an electric shock through the guitar strings, I was somewhat " startled " by this. It didn't happen again so I carried on. Two thirds of the way through Won't Get Fooled Again I got another belt and then another and needless to say I stopped playing much to the consternation of the rest of the band. I ended up DI-ing to the desk and couldn't hear a bloody thing. Never found the problem with the amp, ended up swapping it for a Vox Teardrop bass, god I wish I still had that and yes I did tell the new owner what had happened, he never mentioned it so I guess it was fine. Weird.
Not a hifi disaster but audio related. We were playing a gig at The Richmond in Brighton, there was a large house PA with their own engineer so we only had to supply the backline. I had a really nice Ampeg combo that was perfect for the job and we were having a great gig until I got an electric shock through the guitar strings, I was somewhat " startled " by this. It didn't happen again so I carried on. Two thirds of the way through Won't Get Fooled Again I got another belt and then another and needless to say I stopped playing much to the consternation of the rest of the band. I ended up DI-ing to the desk and couldn't hear a bloody thing. Never found the problem with the amp, ended up swapping it for a Vox Teardrop bass, god I wish I still had that and yes I did tell the new owner what had happened, he never mentioned it so I guess it was fine. Weird.
Wasn't it Eric Clapton who got a belt off of the mike stand at Live Aid? I mean I know Live Aid was a bit of a lash up but even so it shouldn't really be able to happen.
A long drive to get some new speakers. Get them home, take off the grilles and place them carefully on the sofa. Wire the speakers in and then sit back to listen....... Snapping the grilles in half. Doh!
RobbieGong
21-02-2018, 16:39
I used to DJ back in the early 1990's, a venue I played at had ceiling 'swing mounted' deck platform (swing being a platform of wood on chains to the ceiling) on it, 2 x Technics SL-1200s and a mixer in the middle. The DJ booth was up high from the dance floor...
Half way through the evening pretty worse for wear on very Exotic Woodbines and Alcohol, I bent down to sort some records out, on straightening up managed to upend the swing platform with my shoulder and the resulting two Technics SL-1200s and a mixer ended up 15ft below on the dance floor in what can only be described as a ferkin' chaotic mess. Everything had literally exploded into a million pieces on impact.
I kid you not it looked like a Modern Art installation!
My short lived DJ career never recovered!
:eek::eek::lol::eek:
The end of a short career as a ahem...speaker designer were my much modded IMF speakers.
I think the model was TLS 80 or summat close. Biggish transmission line, four way using a Kef b200 and Coles supertweeters along with others.
The speakers were recovered from a family friends shed!!!! and in a bad way.
All the drivers were shot and the cabs rough but in sound shape.
I pondered returning them to stock but drivers were hard to find and my finances were limited.
So I embarked upon a radical revision.
My model had the drivers built onto a seperate baffle glued into the cab so after much levearing and grunting I was able to remove the baffle and crossover.
I spent many hours sanding and oiling the cabs and they looked superb...painted the fronts matte black and cut a new baffle blank.
But what to fit??
By chance I happened on a pair of large magnet B200s in a second hand stereo shop along with a pair of audax cloth tweeters.....so new 2 way they would be.
I cut the baffle and installed the drivers along with some old xovers I had knocking about.
I thought they looked pretty Damn good but upon firing them up I was pretty shocked......they sounded SHIT.
No bass to speak of, muddy and with a top end that could scare cats.....
I could have cried.
joining AoS:eek:
:sofa:
:rfl:
Pieoftheday
21-02-2018, 17:42
Using headphones while drunk,trod on the cable and snapped the adapter leaving it in the amp, took ages to get it out, I've done this twice. I only really use headphones when tother half's having an early night
walpurgis
21-02-2018, 17:58
Using headphones while drunk,trod on the cable and snapped the adapter leaving it in the amp, took ages to get it out, I've done this twice. I only really use headphones when tother half's having an early night
I'd say you need some wireless 'phones mate. :)
Pieoftheday
21-02-2018, 18:24
I'd say you need some wireless 'phones mate. :)
Or drink a bit less? Oh no that's daft:)
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2018, 21:13
I once threw up on my amplifier, and it went in through the vents on the top. When I finally plucked up the courage to turn it on a few days later, everything worked, but it gave off a smell like the bottom of a wheely bin.
Put me right off Chinese food, and 40 years later, I'm still not keen.
walpurgis
21-02-2018, 21:20
I once threw up on my amplifier
It's just one thing after another. ;)
My dad had a cat which had a habit of sleeping on top of his quite expensive Panasonic VCR.
This brute of a machine cost over 600 quid in the early 90s...a huge amount and even in standby was the warmest perch in his unmodernised terrace home.
It stayed in standby....and hence stayed warm when the moggy decided to piss its bed.
My dad said the smell, when he returned from work many hours later, was beyond description....and lingered in the house for days.
The insurance did not cover it.
spendorman
22-02-2018, 05:00
Setting the output stage bias on a 1980s B&O Beomaster 5000 receiver - multimeter probe slipped, touched another component and bang - output transistor fried. :(
In my defence, you do need three very small hands to do this with ease and I know of better people than me who have done exactly the same thing!
About a decade ago I did something similar with one of my Quad 303's, which are very robust. I remember having to replace the series transistor in the power supply. Come of think of it, this is the 303 running at this moment, sounds great.
Forgot to mention, as the meter probe slipped, there was a large flash / spark, as it shorted out the main DC supply, nice.
jandl100
22-02-2018, 07:36
I let a digital cable attached to my luvverly Theta Gen V DAC dangle against the speaker posts of an on AVI Lab Series amp - 200wpc.
BANG and lots of smoke.
DAC was dead as a dodo. :(
Amp was fine, though.
Bought a Sony PS-X50 (http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-PS-X50.html) turntable on eBay, fully aware that it was 110V and I needed to connect the 240/110V converter that the seller also supplied.
When the box arrived I was so excited I forgot about the voltage thing and plugged the deck straight into the UK mains, leaving the converter undiscovered in the box.
Damn thing never worked again. :(
Pete The Cat
22-02-2018, 08:49
Cartridges. Installing a new Benz while "relaxing" with a couple of beers, on reflection the bent cantilever was an entirely predictable outcome. Further back, in the '80s I stored my copies of Hi-Fi Answers on a shelf above my deck. One day they leapt off and flattened a Grado which was playing underneath.
A facetious answer would be buying a Rotel RB970. Dreadful, it lasted two weeks before I got rid of it.
Pete
I once sold a good amplifier very cheaply because I thought it didn’t work.
Later I realized that it didn’t have the links between its pre and power sections fitted... :doh:
I did the same thing - gave away a NAD C370 that had an intermittent left channel. All it needed was a new connector between one of the pre-amp boards and the main amp board, which NAD fixed for free.
dantheman91
22-02-2018, 14:30
Frying a NAD 3020i
Forgot to take the bi wire links out on a pair of Celestion F30 Bi wired with the links in shorted the amp Opps but the speakers survived though.....
southall-1998
22-02-2018, 15:57
Had a Little Dot II+ headphone amp. That had the famous 'switch on' flash in the larger tubes. This was inherent and some batches did this. So you had to switch the unit on without headphones plugged in. One day I completely forgot about the quirk had my beloved Grado's plugged in.... The little rouge popped the left Grado driver and shot it dead. Felt like taking my anger out on a baby doll ;)
S.
Pieoftheday
22-02-2018, 16:47
I once threw up on my amplifier, and it went in through the vents on the top. When I finally plucked up the courage to turn it on a few days later, everything worked, but it gave off a smell like the bottom of a wheely bin.
Put me right off Chinese food, and 40 years later, I'm still not keen.
:lol: that made me chuckle
spendorman
22-02-2018, 18:22
My dad had a cat which had a habit of sleeping on top of his quite expensive Panasonic VCR.
This brute of a machine cost over 600 quid in the early 90s...a huge amount and even in standby was the warmest perch in his unmodernised terrace home.
It stayed in standby....and hence stayed warm when the moggy decided to piss its bed.
My dad said the smell, when he returned from work many hours later, was beyond description....and lingered in the house for days.
The insurance did not cover it.
Something like this, but Tiddles never used it as a toilet:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4754/40042303392_de55f51ec8_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/241pgKf)Need a bigger amplifier (https://flic.kr/p/241pgKf) by A60man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41679262@N02/), on Flickr
Back in the 70's,strobe lights were a fad,a pal of mine drilled some big holes into a TT platter and mounted a 100 watt lightbulb behind to make a basic strobe,it worked quite well,so decided I would do the same with an unused deck I had,turns out Garrad 401's are quite expensive now.
Also back in 1986 we moved from a flat to where we lived now,so ditched a load of stuff I hadn't used for years,so 2 SME 3009's were skipped.
:doh:
Also back in 1986 we moved from a flat to where we lived now,so ditched a load of stuff I hadn't used for years,so 2 SME 3009's were skipped.
:doh:
I always wondered who it is throwing away perfectly serviceable gear. When my mate worked at the tip he would come home with mint equipment quite regularly.
Binned one of these when I moved to my current house in 1999 and bought a 'midi system' :doh:
http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/data/2193674/b/b1/b101f29d_Akai1-1.jpeg
I think I can safely say I have never binned anything that was still in working order, let alone SME arms or classic jap amplifiers. You people are nuts.
I always wondered who it is throwing away perfectly serviceable gear. When my mate worked at the tip he would come home with mint equipment quite regularly.
I tried selling them on the Exchange and Mart and to several dealers,but had zero interest.
You people are nuts.
Yep. Think I was under the cosh to move out of my flat, was easier binning stuff than moving it, also chucked a Commodore Amiga & 64 & all the games I had.
Luckily I hung on to my turntable.
I always wondered who it is throwing away perfectly serviceable gear. When my mate worked at the tip he would come home with mint equipment quite regularly.
My neighbour was discussing hi fi ,and when I told him I had been looking for a deck , he told me he had took his Pioneer deck (he couldn't recall the model) and amp to the recycling centre 2 weeks before , so you dont suprise me .
House clearances would dispose of lots of stuff ,in their time !! D
I tried selling them on the Exchange and Mart and to several dealers,but had zero interest.
Even so, it is just 2 little tonearms. Could you not just put them in a drawer?
Sorry man, I'm not having a go, it's just that I could never bring myself to chuck stuff out like that. Possibly why it is currently impossible to get into my back bedroom. Maybe I need to be more ruthless?
anthonyTD
23-02-2018, 13:49
Leant over my system one day with a woolly jumper on, just to reach something behind, pick up arm on my turntable linked into my jumper, and thus pulled the arm across the platter, in doing so' terminally bent the cantilever of the moving coil cartridge I had only recently fitted! :doh:
montesquieu
23-02-2018, 13:52
Also back in 1986 we moved from a flat to where we lived now,so ditched a load of stuff I hadn't used for years,so 2 SME 3009's were skipped.
:doh:
I'm confident that anything I've binned that was rubbish then is still rubbish now (thankfully)!
walpurgis
23-02-2018, 14:25
I think I can safely say I have never binned anything that was still in working order, let alone SME arms or classic jap amplifiers. You people are nuts.
Yup. The only things I can remember binning was some Leak speaker drivers. Probably deserve a medal for that. Saved some other poor sod from enduring their crap sound.
I did bin some Amstrad speakers once. They were working but obviously they were shit and the cabs had been gnawed by mice and had holes in the corners (blocked up with blutak while in use).
That was doing the world a favour though so no regrets there.
walpurgis
23-02-2018, 18:06
I did bin some Amstrad speakers once. They were working but obviously they were shit and the cabs had been gnawed by mice and had holes in the corners (blocked up with blutak while in use).
That was doing the world a favour though so no regrets there.
Serious error of judgement even being found in possession of such things. ;)
A lodger left them in a cupboard. I used them as temporary surround speakers on my first foray into 5.1
I did consider keeping the drive units but they were so toytown there was no point.
Also back in 1986 we moved from a flat to where we lived now,so ditched a load of stuff I hadn't used for years,so 2 SME 3009's were skipped. :doh:
Sigh......
I’d just about finished a pair of Goodmans Magnum’s that I’d re-capped etc. The last job was to connect up the bass drivers. I’d bought the drivers off eBay after waiting ages for a pair to come up and the usual nervous wait to see if I’d won them. I’d soldered the wire to drivers and had soldered circular tabs onto the other end ready to connect to the bolts on the back of the speaker connections. Except that when I tried to slip the tab onto the bolt ready to tighten down with the nut the internal diameter of the tab was too small to fit over the bolt. No worries, I thought, I’ll just drill them out, make the holes bigger. Did I take the tabs off the wires first, did I neck, only a quick job why bother? You can probably predict the rest. As soon as the drill bit touched the hole the tab gripped and the wire was spinning round like a strimmer blade. Of course not without first ripping itself from the cone and the voice coil. No injury to myself thankfully, only my pride, I suppose. Lesson learned. There is a saying about haste isn’t there?
walpurgis
24-02-2018, 09:58
I'm glad you're not my mechanic Andrew! ;)
Binned an Ortofon 12" mono tonearm and a Pickering unipoise arm with integrated pickup cartridge when clearing out my late father's stuff.
I did bin some Amstrad speakers once. They were working but obviously they were shit and the cabs had been gnawed by mice and had holes in the corners (blocked up with blutak while in use).
That was doing the world a favour though so no regrets there.
According to Alan Sugar's autobiography, the size of the cabinets was calculated to maximize shipping container space, nothing to do with acoustics!
I'm glad you're not my mechanic Andrew! ;)
Yes, I appreciate that Geoff. The daft thing is I do consider myself to be reasonably handy. I’ve worked on motorbikes since I was a kid and rarely need a tradesman in the house. It’s like every now and again I get a sort of mechanical Tourette’s.
walpurgis
24-02-2018, 12:06
every now and again I get a sort of mechanical Tourette’s.
:lolsign:
Yes, I appreciate that Geoff. The daft thing is I do consider myself to be reasonably handy. I’ve worked on motorbikes since I was a kid and rarely need a tradesman in the house. It’s like every now and again I get a sort of mechanical Tourette’s.
Ha Ha , great stuff . :lol: Drills hey ?? Like the time I was too tight to buy a new handle for my Stihl chainsaw ,so made a metal piece to strengthen the plastic handle , pushed too hard with the drill and went straight into the oil tank !!
According to Alan Sugar's autobiography, the size of the cabinets was calculated to maximize shipping container space, nothing to do with acoustics!
Yes, I've read it. The parts that cover his time in audio are very interesting. He certainly doesn't sugar coat it (ho ho).
Yes, I've read it. The parts that cover his time in audio are very interesting. He certainly doesn't sugar coat it (ho ho).
It was dog eat dog and the devil took what was left..
Primalsea
24-02-2018, 23:16
Leant over my system one day with a woolly jumper on, just to reach something behind, pick up arm on my turntable linked into my jumper, and thus pulled the arm across the platter, in doing so' terminally bent the cantilever of the moving coil cartridge I had only recently fitted! :doh:
My wife done something similar to my Goldring 1042 which at the time was a very expensive purchas for me. One day I noticed a bit of yellow duster fluff hanging off the cantilever. Closer inspection revealed that it was hanging off to one side. The turntable was wonderfully free of dust however, something to be positive about at the time.
I let a digital cable attached to my luvverly Theta Gen V DAC dangle against the speaker posts of an on AVI Lab Series amp - 200wpc.
BANG and lots of smoke.
DAC was dead as a dodo. :(
Amp was fine, though.
Bought a Sony PS-X50 (http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-PS-X50.html) turntable on eBay, fully aware that it was 110V and I needed to connect the 240/110V converter that the seller also supplied.
When the box arrived I was so excited I forgot about the voltage thing and plugged the deck straight into the UK mains, leaving the converter undiscovered in the box.
Damn thing never worked again. :(
Oh dear, one of the finest DACs ever made.
My dad had a cat which had a habit of sleeping on top of his quite expensive Panasonic VCR.
This brute of a machine cost over 600 quid in the early 90s...a huge amount and even in standby was the warmest perch in his unmodernised terrace home.
It stayed in standby....and hence stayed warm when the moggy decided to piss its bed.
My dad said the smell, when he returned from work many hours later, was beyond description....and lingered in the house for days.
The insurance did not cover it.
I was a repair engineer early in my life - you’d be amazed how common this was. If you didn’t get power off quickly it’ll generally eat straight the PCB tracks and component legs. We had plastic gloves and a pack of servisol foam cleaner out the back of the workshop - generally the van drivers delivering faulty kit already knew which items were piss infected & dumped them by the door :)
Had a kid piss in my tool case. Littlebastard.com
Unomelodica
06-03-2018, 19:19
Selling my trio L-07D, as and didnt really use the system , job ,young children ....fool me .
2ndly, again rather didnt need to sell but did marantz CD-7 , what was I thinking
G
montesquieu
06-03-2018, 19:55
Selling my trio L-07D, as and didnt really use the system , job ,young children ....fool me .
2ndly, again rather didnt need to sell but did marantz CD-7 , what was I thinking
G
My LP12 sat out the small children phase safely in its box. Luckily for me it probably trebled in value in that time. (Otherwise I'd never have afforded the Townshend Rock Reference that replaced it).
I'm confident that anything I've binned that was rubbish then is still rubbish now (thankfully)!
I've never really 'binned' anything: speakers, amplifiers, turntables, arms or cartridges. If there has been something I no longer had any use for, I have either sold them on, or given them away.
The only things I have discarded, but with the intention of using parts to build something better were: a Collaro 2020 turntable (a sort of "poor man's" Garrard 301), but I saved the (substantial) motor; and a pair of home-built Mullard 5-10 amplifiers, but I kept the Parmeko transformers.
Dubster68
07-03-2018, 00:09
Bought my first Ortofon 2m Black cart and spent over £500 and thought keeping the stylus guard on was the best option. Went to use removed the guard and found the cantilever bent due to wrongly fixing the guard in the first place . So thought easy to straighten, bugger snapped new stylus required:mental:
spendorman
07-03-2018, 06:02
Not my most biggest disaster, but I miss my Rogers HG88 MKIII, sort of bigger brother to the Cadet III.
The HG88 had more power than the Cadet without loosing out on tonal quality.
http://www.hifiengine.com/files/images/Rogers%20HG%2088%20MKIII.preview.jpg
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