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In Reply to: RE: any thoughts on this? posted by joey.veloso@gmail.com on January 25, 2016 at 09:54:00
I have 3 boys growing up when I had the ARC tube based system in my listening room together with Martin Logan Monolith III speakers. I have trained the boys not to touch anything and can only go near it when I'm around. Although, there was an instance when one of the boys friend decided to play DJ on my VPI TNT turntable of which it took the alignment on my tonearm out of specs, but other than that the album was ok.Even today, the boys are in their 27, 24 and 16 years of age and still won't touch my system without asking my permission first. BTW, they are using my system as a reference for listening to their owned recorded music. Obviously, being around with a high-end stereo system while growing up did have an effect on them regarding the quality of sound.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Edits: 01/25/16Follow Ups:
The mention of your ARC-based system and children reminded me of a story. I have ARC equipment and my amps do not have cages. While at RMAF one year I asked the ARC rep if they still made the cages, because I then had a grandson who was at the crawling stage. He replied that they did not, but that "it shouldn't matter because, if he touches the tubes once or twice, he'll learn never to do it again." When asked if he had any children, he answered, "No." Several other grandchildren followed and only one has touched a tube. I usually keep my class D amp on when they are around, even though they are old enough now to know not to touch the tubes. The turntables are more of a problem. Fingers crossed on that front.
The way I looked at it if I want my system to live with the boys I need to managed it and if I want my boys to live with my system I need to trained them.In their early age I let each of them touched the tubes to let them know how hot it is and not only that I also explained to them the danger when one of them ever spilled juices. Milk or cereal on the tube equipment.
Luckily, they listened early on and I've never had any mishap from burning fingers and or electrical shock from anyone of them. Although, I'd found out one day that one of my speakers driver had a hole in it the size of a finger. I interrogate each one of them but, none of them cracked to tell me who did it. I had a hunch of who did it, however, I decided to let it be as I thought they have learned a very valuable lesson in life by sticking together through thick and thin as brothers should be.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Edits: 01/25/16
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