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What is your scariest moment in High End audio?

After upgrading my digital front end, with another glass of wine in hand, I thought perhaps the analog setup deserved an upgrade from the entry level Kpetsu.

I then discovered that Koetsu was over! A search found a source for a Rosewood Signature Platinum, which I duly purchased and installed, together with a 3 gm weight in the JMW Memorial arm. That went OK, and I set it up using the VPI Scoutmaster jig, set the tracking weight to 1.9 gms, aligned the azimuth and made sure that the Sutherland Duo was set to 100 ohms and 64dB gain.

I settled down to a glorious hour or two of listening.  Then I thought "Did I get the downforce right.  Checked it & spot on.

i put another record on, lowered the arm to the record.  SILENCE (I could actually here the stylus in the groove but that was it.)

OMG.  Yes the cables were in.  Yes the pre was set to input from the deck. Had I destroyed a $6,700 inadvertently?

After 5 minutes of panic I turned off everything and restarted. All OK.  Who knew that a pre-amp could need rebooting?

 

 

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A House cleaning service staff worker somehow knocked over an expensive floor-standing speaker into a MAPLESHADE audio rack with its threaded / knurled steel pipes supporting the shelves .

The momentum of the large floor-stander speaker crashing free-fall into the audio rack knurled steel pipe chipped a sizeable chunk out of the premium wood veneer finish.

I could not stomach looking at the resulting FUHBAR , so I immediately sold the speakers that cost me a sizeable wad of cash by a forced accident damage discount

Yep…. I cringed when I had to fess up to the missus about new speaker replacement cost after first dumping  the muthatrucker dumbass house cleaning staff that tried to hide it by squirrelling out of the house without telling me first. 

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