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The Scariest Story Ever Told?

What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you while listening to your high end audio system? Your story can involve anything, from buying an outrageously expensive component that sounded terrible when you turned on your system or a mishap that cost you lots of money to repair or buying tubes only to discover that the boxes were empty.

Last night, while I was talking to a good friend of mine over the telephone, I heard a loud "pop" through my left speaker and soon thereafter, some static. I immediately inspected my amplifier only to discover that one of my left channel output "vacuum tubes" was on fire (internal flame within the tube, believe it or not!) Now, that blew my mind! Fortunately, it only turned out to be a tube going bad and my amplifier did not short-out. Thank God!

I must admit that I nearly had a heart attack and felt lost without my trustworthy and extremely loved Berning amplifier.

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unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
Hey Kublakhan, thanks for the support. But then again, I too have dispatched to odd post I would have liked to take back. The stranger thing here, is that Viggen often has great posts.
kublakhan
717 posts
 
Unclejeff, i bet i have you beat by far for stupid posts i'd like to take back so rest easy that you're way down on the totem pole,even if only second to me.
unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
OkThatDoesItKublakhan;

With that post, I is outta here and off to a dear-old bottle of Cabernet.
clbeanzfb43
28 posts
 
2 friends where setting up a Michell gyrodec they installed the cartridge(can't remember the make very 'spensivo tho)
one was carrying the heavy table into the living room and had to step over the homeowners sleeping Large Shepard in the narrow hallway.The dog awoke startled at mid step.It did not go well at all,scratch one tonearm/stylus/gyrodec
and bad knee injury resulted from attempted save.
newbie13
242 posts
 
I can't remember which board I read it on to link it but there is a story of a three year old waking up early and going to town with a Sharpie. Plasma, all components, leather couchs, walls, and all the appliances in the house.

Being a chef and having about three Sharpies for each the chef jackets I own floating around and a three year old. I immediately cleaned house and locked them all the chemical cabinet in the garage. Next day at work the phone lines were burning up with co-workers calling home as the story spread. A few days later there was a fairly large bain overflowing with the sharpies people had brought back to work.
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