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• Shipped my Pre-Amp U.P.S. -t - Julien43 19:21:06 09/09/02 (1)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

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  Julien Therrien
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  • Good one - psgary 20:41:15 09/09/02 (0)
    In Reply to: Shipped my Pre-Amp U.P.S. -t posted by Julien43 on September 09, 2002 at 19:21:06:

    Too bad it's probably true.
    
    

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• Re: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? - billwjr 19:18:06 09/04/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  12 years ago ignored the funny little buzz the BK EX442 made
  when it shut down. Ignored it as it got a little louder. Than I
  turned it on and about 60V DC sucked the woofers of my ProAc monitors
  out the back wall. Almost. So someone wanted to do a demo project,
  still hadn't bought a new amp, so I plugged the Soundcraft mixer
  into the tube integrated I found for $15. The amp's power supply shorted
  in about a minute and cooked all the foil off the main board and six channels. A $3300 paper weight.
  
  

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• Forgetting to lock the tailgate on my truck and......... - danj 18:55:11 09/03/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  having my TD-160 fall out and bite the concrete at 60 MPH. I still cry about that major gaffe!

  and

  years ago.....spilling a full bottle of nail polish remover inside the cooling vents of my receiver. It was toast.

  or the worst..........

  letting my brother borrow some gear. I got it back but it never worked right after that. I think someone had actually peed on my TEAC R2R deck!
  
  

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• Re: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? - Timbo in Oz 21:03:28 09/02/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  just the latest

  left the lid off the tube tuner (receiver with the poweramps off) - to replace one of those gorgeous magic eye tubes the one that fans out for FM Signal strength.

  I was momentarily careless about where my fingers were. Bzzzt, just for a microsecond. No damage though.

  the dumbest thing ever was not me but what my eldest boy did to my Garrott* Microscanner Denon DL 103D - on his 16th birthday. Yes! It was a difficult night for me!

  * (the late Garrott brothers)

  (Garrotted? LoL keeping my hands off his neck!)

  timbo

  
  
  

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• Re: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? - Don T 08:04:04 09/02/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  1.) Tried to "nude" a phono cartridge.
  2.) Cleaned the black stuff of a Grado signature cartridge.
  3.) Plugged the outputs of a phono section into the phono inputs of an integrated amp.
  Give me rhythm or give me death!
  
  

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• Re: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? - rockhead 20:22:38 09/01/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  My wife plugged a vacuum cleaner into my PS Audio 300...and it was my last fuse.

  Patrick
  
  

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• Hey, I ain't stoopid! - dennzio 13:12:35 09/01/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  But I did lose a major part of my LP collection in a basement flood. Cried for days. All that beautiful album cover art! Waaah.
  
  

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• Lunched the stylus of a brandnew Dynavector Ruby while balancing the arm, then ... - Dave Farrell 12:26:37 09/01/02 (2)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  destroyed the replacement, a brand-new Garrot (this was in the 80s). In both cases, I was checking the arm swung freely. It did: smacking the styli into the centre spindle.

  I was traumatised ...
  
  

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  • I feel your pain - psgary 19:27:16 09/01/02 (1)
    In Reply to: Lunched the stylus of a brandnew Dynavector Ruby while balancing the arm, then ... posted by Dave Farrell on September 01, 2002 at 12:26:37:

    I think I did something like that with a generic Panasonic in the '80s and it still hurt.
    
    

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    • Funnily enough, I still have the uniplegic Dynavector, in mint condition (stylus notwithstanding) - Dave Farrell 03:12:27 09/02/02 (0)
      In Reply to: I feel your pain posted by psgary on September 01, 2002 at 19:27:16:

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• Ah yes, the old "forgot to plug it in" scenario. I've done - driver 12:02:44 09/01/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  something similar. I was running sound at the time at an outdoor gig & was having trouble bringing up the vocal mics. After about half a song I figured out the amp rack was unplugged. I walked back to the board to turn everything down then back to turn the amps on.

  To most of the crowd it just looked like a technical glitch that I was able to fix but the guys in the band were snickering when they saw what I was doing.
  
  

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• Dropped a 6 ft. pair of line source arrays on the Santa Monica Fwy. - TAFKA Steve 06:16:59 09/01/02 (1)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  Well, 'I' didn't drop them. I built them, didn't like them, and gave them to my younger cousin Geoff, who is likewise genetically-impaired in judgement. Geoff convinced me that he could take them home with his VW beetle, and I helped 'secure' them on top of the roof with rope and bungee cords. He made it almost 15 miles before they slid off the back.
  
  

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  • if you drive long enough.... - BWM 10:14:41 09/01/02 (0)
    In Reply to: Dropped a 6 ft. pair of line source arrays on the Santa Monica Fwy. posted by TAFKA Steve on September 01, 2002 at 06:16:59:

    ....on any freeway in Los Angeles, in one day, you can furnish an entire home with stuff you find in the middle lane.

    washing machine, sofa, mattress (lots of mattresses!), armoir, potted tree.....

    still looking to find a pair of Maggies in the fast lane.
    
    
    

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• You think THAT'S stupid? - Bagsgroove 00:09:07 09/01/02 (6)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  Most dookyheaded thing I ever did with my gear, well...I really hate to admit this, but in about 1983 I...no, I can't say it...

  SOLD MY TURNTABLE! (Fortunatly, I didn't get rid of my LPs--had about, oh, say, 8 feet of them. THAT would have been stupid beyond belief!)

  Sanity and music returned to me in 1987. There's hope for all of us...

  You get those green beans out of your keyboard yet, psgary?

  
  
  

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  • Re: You think THAT'S stupid? - JeffMO 14:46:56 09/06/02 (0)
    In Reply to: You think THAT'S stupid? posted by Bagsgroove on September 01, 2002 at 00:09:07:

    Hey I didn't know you guys were hanging out here.

    I sold my Earth Wind and Fire records. Wish I wouldn't have. Although they would sound crappy on my TT.

    Now you better ease up on gary or I'll have to turn up the heat.
    Jeff
    
    

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  • Re: You think THAT'S stupid? Hey Bags! - SETdude 09:10:14 09/01/02 (4)
    In Reply to: You think THAT'S stupid? posted by Bagsgroove on September 01, 2002 at 00:09:07:

    Sold my TT about the same time. LP's were sold when the wife and I parted ways in 85. There, I said it. I'd consider vinyl now, but there are no decent used LP's any where near me and TT that would come close to, oh shit I'm gonna get it now, my CD player would be too expensive.

    Perfect sound forever. I do recall unlistenable LPs' though.
    
    

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    • Re: You think THAT'S stupid? Hey Bags! - SETdude 09:58:25 09/01/02 (3)
      In Reply to: Re: You think THAT'S stupid? Hey Bags! posted by SETdude on September 01, 2002 at 09:10:14:

      I still wish I kept the LP's.
      
      

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      • Never too late... - Bagsgroove 10:30:31 09/01/02 (2)
        In Reply to: Re: You think THAT'S stupid? Hey Bags! posted by SETdude on September 01, 2002 at 09:58:25:

        A decent TT would probably cost less than you think...all kinds of excellent used tables on E-Bay. Lots of people think you have to spend thousands to get good vinyl sound (lets define "good" as "at least as good as cd", even though I think cd sound can be bettered at a fairly low price point...). Under $1000 would get you into the ball game, even if you needed to add a phono stage preamp.

        And LPs are EVERYWHERE! I live about 50 miles past The Middle of Nowhere, VA -- serious hillbilly (uh...I mean "Appalachian American") country, and even here, we've got 1 good used LP store, and gazillions of thrift shops, yard sales, flea markets and the like. Sure, the majority of these kind of LPs are garbage, but Priceless Gems lurk among them...for a buck or two! And millions (literally!) of great used AND new LPs are at your fingertips with the Internet.

        The Hunt is half the fun...

        One last thing--I know we BELLEGERENT VINYL FANATICS wear on people's nerves sometimes, but over in the Vinyl Asylum we get frequent posts like "How do I get back into LPs?" by people who need to get re-aquainted with the basics. Generally, these posts get helpful replies (Though sometimes, we do hunt these people down, kidnap them, whisk them off to our Secret Vinyl Lair, strip and tie them to a huge turntable, and perform strange vinyl rites over them until they submit...)
        
        

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        • Re: Never too late... - SETdude 12:29:41 09/01/02 (0)
          In Reply to: Never too late... posted by Bagsgroove on September 01, 2002 at 10:30:31:

          (Though sometimes, we do hunt these people down, kidnap them, whisk them off to our Secret Vinyl Lair, strip and tie them to a huge turntable, and perform strange vinyl rites over them until they submit...) How much does this cost?

          I live in NW Florida, The Redneck Rivieria. Home of incest and Winstons in a box. It's O.K. Daddy, just don't crush the Winstons!
          The box makes life easier. Betcha didn't know that.

          Seriously, I've looked for LP's and found very little worth owning.
          I might hunt again after I move to SW Florida. Lots of estate sales there. There are truly lost treasures on vinyl that will never be on CD. I'll post a bit on the vinyl forum.
          
          
          

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        • There are a couple of places I can think of but I'll guess - driver 11:31:06 09/01/02 (0)
          In Reply to: Never too late... posted by Bagsgroove on September 01, 2002 at 10:30:31:

          Big Rock as I think it's pretty far away from anything. Am I within range?
          
          

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• I used my system with prototype audio hardware... - Ted Smith 22:12:24 08/31/02 (0)
  In Reply to: What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your gear? posted by psgary on August 31, 2002 at 21:00:41:

  Howdy

  In a previous life we built a hard disc audio recorder, I don't know what pisses an amp and speakers off more, full rail DC offset or a 3kHz full level square wave. But I can tell you which pisses my ears off the most :)

  -Ted
  
  
  

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