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What was you most expensive accidental damage?

I have read many claims by members that they accidently damaged their multi-thousand dollar cartridge styli by improper handling. I have blown out a few low power handling speakers with high powered amps. Several members claim that their cats have clawed the speaker cones to shreds. Have you experianced any 1) blown amplifier output transistors by accidently shorting the speaker wires. 2) Extra loud turn on thumps blowing out speakers 3)Putting the wrong tube in tube socket destroying the tube 4) leaving tube equipment so longthat the capacitors melt. 5)Electrical fires from AC shorts?

Mint604 (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

11-13-05

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11-14-05 Getting married.but then again like the joke gies "why ... Chazzbo

11-14-05 Mint: fried a harman kardon 3380 receiver ($250) by shortin ... Rar1

11-14-05: Hank
Well...........I do have a story. Way back in the late 60s when I was in college my buddies and I would set up a couple of mics and tape record our group playing folk music. One day, at a family party my little cousin came into the room where we had just recorded a song and the mics were live. She put her lips against one of the mics and let out a loud scream. The results were two melted voice coils on my EMI speakers. When I sent them in for repair I got a call from a EMI engineer wanting to know how the hell that happened. He said he never seen a speaker voice coil so totally destroyed. It's funny now, but at the time there were no smiles on my face.
Hank (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

11-14-05 I had the veneer on my speakers crack due to a leak in the r ... Fedreams

11-14-05 I remember stepping on a pair of kr 842's! this was about a ... Chriskeating

11-14-05 This is going to seem trivial, but i once (accidentally, on ... Trelja

11-14-05 I have yet experienced such a loss, but i have had a guest/f ... Quicke

11-14-05 My son accidentally played "dominos" with my magne ... Banksfriend

11-14-05 Quicke,man i hate morons like that,im always amazed at the l ... Bigjoe

11-14-05 35.00 hard earned dollars to a scalper for a $6.50 ticket to ... R_f_sayles

11-14-05 I havnt thought about olympia stadium in years! those were t ... Bigjoe

11-14-05 Bigjoe did you bring it to copurt?idfhe was passed out well ... Chazzbo

11-14-05 I learned that you cant have 8ft acoustats panels hanging ou ... Kehut

11-15-05 Chazzbo,i never took that fool to court infact i never even ... Bigjoe

11-16-05 Bigjoe: you should have poked pencils in his ears while he w ... Mint604

11-16-05 A friend of mine was selling audio equipment from his house ... Gregadd

11-17-05 Mint , believe me i wanted to do a lot more than just poke p ... Bigjoe

11-19-05 Bigjoe: i agree completely with your philosophy that it is n ... Mint604

11-20-05 While setting up my benz glider while using a small steel ma ... Quincy