I was living in LA in 1971 and had speakers mounted up higher on the wall, one at each corner of the room. Each speaker weighed in at about 45 lbs and they were achored quite good, so I thought. At about 4am a 5.something quake hit, and, so did one of my speakers ... exactly dead center atop my rack of equipment. Lots of sparks and pretty well totaled tt, preamp, amp, equalizer, quadrophonic converter (remember those?), and a reverberator unit (ugh... remember those?), and of course, the speaker, and, my rack which I had just purchased. Sad day since at age 18 I didn't think I needed renter's insurance.
My Worst Nightmare
I came home from giving my girlfriend a lift to work this morning and heard a strange noise from the living room. I ran in to discover water cascading from an on wall "Mr. Slim" indoor air conditioning unit onto my stereo. I naturally freaked, pulled my whole rack to the other side of the room and then surveyed the damage. Not too bad actually. I'm in the midst of an amp trade, and despite bemoaning the lack of an amp the night before, the empty bottom shelf is where most of the water fell. The only casualty if any may be my Chang Lightspeed 3200, which was fairly well doused. But all in all, I got lucky. What's the worst thing that ever happened to your system?
Jon
Jon