Good sound is largely a very subjective thing and you can make educated choices but often you can’t know for sure what will float your boat or not until you try it. So mistakes can easily happen. Especially when mixing and matching components.
Premature gear defenestrations
I'm wondering if anyone has stories of episodes when you upgraded gear only to realize that tubes or some other smaller change would scratched that itch?
These fora are chock full of comparisons between various kinds of gear -- often involving tubes or other important parts of the chain. Too often, the comparisons are apples-to-oranges because too many variables are in play.
But we sometimes neglects those variables, ourselves.
So...can you think of a time you sold a piece of gear only to realize later that you should have tried different tubes or better cables, etc.? In other words, times you didn't quite do due diligence and made a change too quickly? What happened?
These fora are chock full of comparisons between various kinds of gear -- often involving tubes or other important parts of the chain. Too often, the comparisons are apples-to-oranges because too many variables are in play.
But we sometimes neglects those variables, ourselves.
So...can you think of a time you sold a piece of gear only to realize later that you should have tried different tubes or better cables, etc.? In other words, times you didn't quite do due diligence and made a change too quickly? What happened?
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hide45 I'm a pretty common fella, I had to look up what
defenestrations meant. I saw a guy drop a Kenwood 9600 off a 2 story building and watch it explode when it hit the bolder in the back yard... It blew up for the 4th time.. Driving Infinity Kappa 9.0. It took a 100 pounds of Krell to drive those things.. 1980 or real close. That Kenwood was a powerful unit for its time.. It would drive anything else for sure.. It wasn't cheap either.. That was pretty funny, though.. |
I came up with this question because sometimes people make changes to their gear without first realizing its potential. People may not realize that tubes can be changed, or that a number of other factors could either be optimized -- room, electrical, etc. Some, like @ghdprentice haven't made mistakes -- they do their research and only move cautiously. The question of this post isn't for the non-mistake-makers, really, but I like the description of his process. @mapman mentions, truly, that good sound is largely very subjective thing and uncertain. The question doesn't presume otherwise; I'm asking what mistake *you* made and then realized it was a mistake for *you.* In other words, the issue of objectivity isn't invoked by the question -- or at least that was not my intent. |
Well the only fix for the guy chucking the receive off the roof was to change speakers. I know I bought and fixed them. The fix was 30.00 usd , but the guy world have nothing to do with a fix that was reflected in the 9.1 series.. No idea why. I paid 600.00 for the 2k speakers at the time.. I know I fixed at least 10 pairs of the Kappa 8.0s and 9.0 That 30.00 fix cost HIM 1400.00 dollars. Great speaker but they sure had a rep for killing amps.. It wasn’t my mistake, but it sure was his.. That was one hard headed fella. Typical rich kid.. Regards |
I think I've only defenestrated one piece: an old boom box/recorder (a Toshiba I believe) that was fantastic; one day, it seemed to develop a random CLICK that I could not trace. Within seconds of baseball-batting the thing over a chair-leg, I discovered the CLICK was coming from the on/off cycling of my electric blanket. |
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