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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?

 

 

retiredaudioguy
bjesien
1,397 posts
 

When she reached her hand down my front pocket and the receipt was in there.

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wsrrsw
1,155 posts
 

Also back in the day one of my sons (now 38) when he was two, turned the stereo all the way up and fried the Marantz receiver and my pride and joy ADS 810's. He was so freaked out by the loud noise that he sobbed uncontrollably and we had to comfort him. About a year later he put some coins in my wife's (expensive it was) Macintosh 512K disk drive and fried it. His first child is on the way.  We'll see what happens. 

freediver
1,326 posts
 

EVERY time I sell a piece of gear & get paid via Paypal G&S...

kennyc
1,883 posts
 

 

What is your scariest moment in High End audio

Telling my spouse I’ve purchased another pricey component 

jeffbij
205 posts
 

Not the scariest, but the craziest....

Had an old slot fed CD player that the eject and stop buttons on the remote were right next to each other.  I hit the eject button and it shot the CD out before it stopped spinning.  A 200 rpm frisbee of death came flying across the room straight at me.  (Needless to say, the CD player was toast... a broken plastic tab on the eject mechanism.)

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