Hi-Fi Cock-ups. What's Your Biggest Disaster?

[walpurgis]

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.

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]

The Mrs "dusted" my cartridge which resulted in a seriously bent cantilever, fair paly to her though she coughed up for a new one.

[walpurgis]

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!


Done the same thing myself. I obliterated the stylus on my first DL-103 with a duster!

[Shovel_Knight]

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...

[walpurgis]

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...

That's really funny. Shame though.

[GrahamS]

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...

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.

[struth]

joining AoS

[Tim]

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[Pieoftheday]

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]

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.