This is a fun thread with no disputes emerging as they often do, sharing out our costly mistakes.
Dekay, that is great question you are asking for a friend. Right after I fire up my soldering gun, which I rarely do because I have no such skills, I just touch it to bare skin somewhere... just to get the misery out of the way early on. Soldering = 100% burnt skin, regardless whether it is from the get-go or at the end and I like to be proactive.
ghdprentice... I just parted with a Wells Audio Majestic power amp (not his integrated version) and am selling a pair of Buchardt S400SE speakers and when I can craft a better ad, a VTV Audio amp with the Purifi module with upgrades from EVS Audio. Since I got my Wells Audio Innamorata amp, nothing else seems to compare, and my new-to-me Dynaudio Confidence C-1s are really amazing speakers.
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OK, I think you will get a kick out of this. A few months ago I purchased a Schiit Lokius EQ to just add a boost to the treble when I am watching TV as I like running the cable box audio through my preamp/stereo.
Simple enough to do, even in a semi-dark room. No need to read the instructions.
For two weeks I was tickled as can be at how adding the EQ treble made the TV dialogue perfect and a lot easier to understand.
Only then when I took a closer look at the Lokius adjustment "symbols" on the unit and read the manual did I realize that I had inadvertently boosted the base and not adjusted the treble at all.
OOPS, confirmation bias at its finest..
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Does cleaning hot solder off a chisel tip, with a brass brush while not wearing pants count?
I’m asking for a friend.
DeKay
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Many years ago, I built a set of corner horns. Then I sold them to a dentist. His son recently told me that when dad was out, he and his brother (speakers weighed 185 pounds each) moved them out to the porch, and yes, played frisbee. Must be a thing.
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Walked into a Lafayette Electronics Store and bought my first system.
Made it through University got a real job and spent my money on gear, and women.
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@tksteingraber - you mean you're not supposed to do that?? I better replace my quarter with a nickel.
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edisoncarter
I drank poison whisky while listening to my rig. Doctor said "Stop drinkin Johnny Walker’s Red, don’t drink poison whisky, don’t you drink it boy"
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When I was a kid I moved my dad's audio system to the porch so I could put the speakers outdoors while my brother and I played frisbee. We only did this when our folks weren't home, of course, because my dad would have murdered both of us had he been aware of it. We had a grand old time and made sure we moved everything back into place well before pop arrived home from work. He turned the system on and started playing an album, and called my brother and I downstairs after about 30 seconds. "who was playing with the stereo?" We (I) had connected the right speaker out of phase. I told him I wanted to "see what it would do" to wire them this way. I assumed (correctly) that this would not get me in as much trouble as "we moved all your stuff to the porch and brought the speakers outside and played everything at full tilt for three hours while we participated in hippie olympics". It still wasn't an enjoyable conversation, but it made me more attentive when it came to wire management in the long run.
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Blew out my flip flop. Multiple times. Yes and some people claim that there's a woman to blame. But I know it's my own damn fault.
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Well, speed is important. Here is my story. One of the Synergy albums by Larry Fast is called 'Cords'. It is like nothing that I ever heard. In fact, I was only told about the album being a sure bet, and I happened to find a $1 sale on some cassettes at a music store. Took it home, listened, and loved it. Well, now to buy the record album. I must have it. Put it on and immediately noticed something very different. Maybe I was playing it at 45 RPM? No folks, the record speed was correct, it was the tape that was stretched out and sounded slow and weird. Kinda wish that I still had the tape just to compare.
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My cat jumped on my SOTA turntable and destroyed the Dynavector 20X10 stylus. I got an Ayre QB-9 a week later and sold my TT rig. I think my cat did me a round about favor...
To Dadork, I wear as a pure badge of honor the fact that I have lost money on every piece of used gear that I that I have ever resold and it has been plenty over the past 45 years. I have had full-priced offers on gear I was reselling and gave buyers a better deal just to keep my losing string going. A few hundred bucks here and there, merely entertainment costs. With this notion in mind, I sure have met met some wonderful audiophiles over the years in the aftermarket with whom I stay in touch. Selling gear at lower prices is a great way to make new friends and spread the joy around.
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My cat jumped on my SOTA turntable and destroyed the Dynavector 20X10 stylus. I got an Ayre QB-9 a week later and sold my TT rig. I think my cat did me a round about favor...
To Dadork, I wear as a pure badge of honor the fact that I have lost money on every piece of used gear that I that I have ever resold and it has been plenty over the past 45 years. I have had full-priced offers on gear I was reselling and gave buyers a better deal just to keep my losing string going. A few hundred bucks here and there, merely entertainment costs. With this notion in mind, I sure have met met some wonderful audiophiles over the years in the aftermarket with whom I stay in touch. Selling gear at lower prices is a great way to make new friends and spread the joy around.
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Overpaid and undersold gear.
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Played a side of an album with a cartridge I had just knocked the diamond from. The jagged whatever that was left on the cantilever acted as a stylus. I thought it sounded a bit iffy and put it down to a poor pressing. Expensive gaff.
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Placing a quarter on my head shell to keep my record from skipping....but didn’t everyone do that growing up? 🤣
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Maybe you.need one of them fancy TTs that require a belt relocation for a different speed.
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Good one. That sounds like something I would do. I always try to get stuff done quickly… especially when I was young, I would always get going too quick. Then I was put in charge of software development… wow… that stopped me dead in my tracks and made me stop everyone that worked for me from doing anything until we were sure we understood why. Programmers like me wanted to get going… great way to do useless stuff.
I am sure I have wasted dozens of hours ripping disks only to find the default during an upgrade went back to lossy compression… having to do it over again.
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