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I always do something stupid...

...I have a pretty nice system and it is important to me. I spend hours researching tweaking and getting it right. I spend even more time listening to it of course. I am a pretty careful and meticulous person in most things.

So...why is it that everytime I get a new piece of expensive equipment or a new cable or whatever, I always manage to do something you are not supposed to do. Like turning off the pre-amp before the power amps and getting a loud pop. Or leaving an amplifier on and unplugging the interconnect attached to it at the pre-amp. Or forgetting that the interconnects to the subwoofer are JUST long enough and trying to move the subwoofer (and thus stressing the interconnects) without unplugging them. Or SIMPLY NOT NOTICING THAT THE $!@*# VOLUME IS UP TOO HIGH BEFORE I PUSH PLAY ON THE TRANSPORT. I could go on.

Point being, I've never really screwed anything up, but it's not from lack of "rying." Is this just me? I realize I've opened myself up to cruelty on this one...
dgaylin
entrope
482 posts
 
I posted to a recent thread about a breakthrough in digital sound conversion - four times.

Am I a moron or what?
calbrs03
184 posts
 
I've learned through much fumbling and many zaps to leave my equipment permanently off. Haven't made any more mistakes this way.
rodman99999
6,097 posts
 
I started to post that the only people that make NO mistakes, are those that do NOTHING. Of course- They don't have much fun either! Kinda what Mr C just said.
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glory
1,614 posts
 
E3,

Good come back on Dodge.
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nietzschelover
93 posts
 
Here's an audio-related story that I find very funny.
It was told to me by Jim Mesa, of Mesa-Boogie pro audio amps.
He told me that The Rolling Stones, always, insisted on using his amps.
Well, one time, the Stones had gone to some private island to record their latest album.
One day, in the midst of this, he got a frantic call from Keith Richards telling him his Mesa-Boogie stack had stopped working.. He said he wanted Jim, himself, to fix it. And to fix it, now!
So, Jim is rushed to a chartered plane, which takes him to an airfield near a dock, from which he leaves, on a yacht, to hurriedly arrive at the frickin' island.
And, poor Jim hasn't slept this whole time.
Upon reaching the island, he's practically running with the guys who brought him there to get to the studio.
He walks in the studio, marches straight over to the amp, takes a lock at Richards and, flicking a switch, says, "Keith, you gotta turn the damn thing on."
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