Thought my future ex-wife wanted my stereo, so I sold it cheap so she wouldn't get her grubby mitts on it. Turned out she was a better person than I gave her credit for and never mentioned my rig. I still miss that gear. Definitely a brain fart. Fortunately, I grew up a lot over that, so I guess not a total loss. LOL
Costliest Brainfart
Yep.
I had one today.
While reorganizing my audio rack, with my TT still pretty on top, I decided I just had to level it just right. And to make this happen, I decided I just had to place a block of wood under the spikes. And since the block was fairly thick I just had to keep lifting the front higher and higher. And higher.
The table slid right off the back and came crashing down onto the floor. Moerch UP4 arm, bent. Karat 17d3 stylus, cocked to the side. The table itself might be salvageable, but I was so disgusted with myself I didn’t bother looking.
A 2K+ brain fart.
Who needs vinyl anyway!
Please list your mishaps if for no other reason than to make me feel a bit better. 😉
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Darn it! The message is deleted. I'm always a "Day late and a Dollar short". |
Just this weekend I decided to try out a new set of driver tubes i - and while pulling the old one out I slipped, somehow lost my balance while crouched over the rack, stumbled, and cracked a 1990s Western Electric 300B. Literally the most expensive pair of tubes I own.
Thank you all for sharing your mishaps - makes me feel a little better knowing I am not alone in this.
@audiodwebe I hope you can find a way to salvage your table with a new arm & cart! So sorry this happened to you. |
Two stories:
YOUNG AND STUPID. I was a freshman in college ('77). I had a dorm room facing a courtyard. It was just before spring break. People were shooting frisbee and hanging out on the courtyard. I decided to impress them with my vinyl collection. So, I had Pioneer sx737 receiver, a pioneer turntable and nice set of KLH speakers. I went to move one speaker over to a lower window facing the courtyard that opened towards the inside. While balancing the speaker in one hand and propping open the window, I dropped the speaker on the metal corner of the window and put a huge 2 inch gash on the side of the speaker. My heart went through the floor. I mowed many a lawn to earn those speakers. And I trashed one.
OLD AND STUPID. Although this involves a guitar and not audio gear, I was trying to line up two hand made classical guitars side by side to compare neck profiles. Not being satisfied with the placement of one, I tried moving it by slightly grabbing the bass bout on the front and the back with one hand. As soon as I gripped it I heard a slight "click" sound. Again, my heart dropped. The pressure cracked the red cedar top at the rear bass side. A 5k guitar, cracked by a mishandling idiot.
Brain farts happen. I'm sorry for yours! |
Anyone can act in a stupid way , times to times... I did myself too as anyone here... And it is not all about damaging a mere object... Making people feel bad is worst than loosing an amplifier... Because the negative emotion caused on others stay forever recorded on the cosmic memory field...Believe it or not.... An audio component lost means nothing... Few bucks...Anyway few thousand bucks perhaps... 😊
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