My Man!I am alone and happy, now, with a room dedicated to audio disc racks and playback gear. My speaker cabs are ~14cu.ft. with big Altec horns on top. Bliss.
My Man!I am alone and happy, now, with a room dedicated to audio disc racks and playback gear. My speaker cabs are ~14cu.ft. with big Altec horns on top. Bliss.
Left the system on continuous playback loop for a week straight because it was recommended that the new speakers needed 100 hours of minimum "burn-in".
Forgot to add, headphones too.
Does a CD player become a laser-cutter when operated such.?
You know, $4/foot Fulton Gold... I still have a pair of those.
OK, I'll put a few out there to get you started:
- Absolutely destroyed your very best stylus while unnecessarily 'cleaning' it...
Iv done this ...Left the system on continuous playback loop for a week straight because it was recommended that the new speakers needed 100 hours of minimum "burn-in".
Forgot to add, headphones too.
Neat cabling is like losing those few extra pounds , you know it would be good and you tell yourself your gona do it but....No true audiophile has neat cables. What was wrong with you? A real audiophile is changing things out often enough he can never get the cables neat.
I was about to like this until mention of Bryan Adams .
- Had two large amplifiers and two pairs of speakers in my college dorm room (3Mx3M). The tutor turned off the power to the whole floor to shut down the 'stereo wars' we were having. I dropped an extension power lead down to the girl's window on the floor below and kept on rockin'. Nearly got me kicked out of college. That was '86... I think it was Bryan Adams' Reckless album that did it.
I bet you feel like a new man after these confessions, I'm finding it cathartic just reading it ..Etc.
- Lived for years in an apartment with a cardboard dresser, mattress on the floor, two sets of mismatched dishes (for company), a director's chair in the living room, and a stereo worth more than your car.
- Spent all your time at parties talking audio with geeky friends.
- Discussed at length the differences among various pieces of your audio system (and then realized later it was about 99.999% imaginary).
- Spent an evening with friends doing ABX testing of your new amplifier only to find nobody could tell any difference whatsoever.
- During tear-down of said ABX test set after everybody was gone realized you forgot to plug in the final power connection to the switch so all trials were of the exact same signal path.
- When your parents called to tell you the basement flooded including all of their priceless antiques, photos, washer/dryer, etc. plus sister's room whilst she was sleeping, your first question was "Is my stereo OK?"
- Pulled over a speaker trying to get just one more inch free to reach the amp.
- Pulled the preamp off the rack trying to get one more inch of cable to the power amp.
- Pulled the turntable off the rack trying to... well, you know.
- Spent nearly twenty-four hours straight trying to determine the optimal VTA, tracking force, etc. for your new cartridge.
- Realized that all your audiophile records are 50% thicker than your normal records and that's why you could never quite get it perfect for all of them.
- Forgot to discharge the HV caps in a tube amp resulting in one broken tube, several wires ripped in two, and severe lacerations to hand, wrist, and arm.
- Dropped the cart on the LP when the phone rang, taking out stylus and speakers (actually speaker fuses, fortunately).
- Rigged your stereo to use as your alarm by wiring it to your alarm clock resulting in a twofer:
- First realizing using the buzzer caused rapid power cycling of the relay circuit and subsequently discovering electronics dislike having their power cycled on and off a few times a second; and,
- After figuring out the right way to wire the relay forgetting to turn the volume down after a loud night's listening and waking up roughly a six-block radius at 5 am the next morning.
- Constructed a giant speaker cable with various wire gauges all neatly bundled and loomed with nice shrink-wrapped tinned ends only to realize it was way too big to fit any speaker connector made by man. By, like, half an inch. But the resistance was super-low.
- Ripped open your speaker boxes to drill holes to connect aforementioned speaker cable directly to the driver.
- In a rare moment when the tech was thrust out on the demo floor (boss should know better) spent time explaining why horns suck to some old geezer who was surprisingly robust and knowledgeable in his defense of these big gigantic corner horn things. Paul Klipsch. Oops.
I bet you feel like a new man after these confessions, I'm finding it cathartic just reading it ..
Hmm, perhaps you'd prefer my choice that ended many stereo wars when I was in college: Ethel Merman! Everyone else immediately backed down every time.I was about to like this until mention of Bryan Adams .
My initial idea upon reading Bryan Adams was something much worse than your comment. I demurred. I too was liking the comment, and then coming to a screeching halt as I read Bryan Adams.I was about to like this until mention of Bryan Adams .