Someone has to suffer for our art. I used to; not anymore. You guys can. ;)
A pleading request to manufacturers of amplifiers and preamplifiers.
At this time I would like to make a pleading request to manufacturers of audio electronics. Please in the name of all that is holy stop putting sharp heatsinks on the outside of your devices. In the decades that I have been involved in this hobby the collected skin that has been carved from my toes, ankles, fingers, hands, wrists, forearms, etc. is equal to the combined weight of a professional football team. The blood I have lost could have saved the lives of 100 hemophiliacs. I have come to fear my own devices as if they were the vampires or werewolves of legends. Can you not round the edges, put covers over them or locate them inside the case? Freddie Krueger has not inflicted as much carnage as the combined horror of all this equipment. The combination of 50 lbs. of transformer weight and 6 square feet of rabid heatsink is a guarantee of laceration when moving any of these monsters. So if anyone out there can hear me I am begging, pleading, will pay for, changes to this abominable practice of covering your products with ravening metal blades lusting after our flesh.Thank you.
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I tried to make a humorous post but seriously my gear slashed me again today and just 2 weeks ago the same.. I have a few well designed amps, the PS Audio HCA 2 has everything inside and the Aragon amps come to mind for good safe design. My current RE Designs LNPA 150's are like bare knives. At least the tube stuff is safe when it is off and the tubes aren't hot. I own at least 7 power amps at this time ( I know it's a disease, don't rub it in) and a third of them are torture devices. I've been wounded by Krells and Mark Levinson, Nelson Pass and Counterpoint. You name it I've been cut by it. At least my tube amps don't bite.Look at these MOFO's. https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/649582178-re-designs-lnpa-150-monoblocks-deluxe-version-with... |
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