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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
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zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Dude - Couple of weeks ago...I'm parked on the floor in front of my rack with the biasing meter plugged in...girlfriend upstairs taking a shower, and all of a sudden the ceiling starts pissing down on the floor not 2 feet from where I'm sitting, 2 feet in front of my left speaker, and 2 feet the other way from where a spare amp is sitting uncovered...thank goodness the waterworks didn't go on for more than several seconds, with no damage done (to the system that is - the ceiling is another story)...and that we have another shower on the other end of the house... :-)
tennisball
12 posts
 
I went to a some what hearing impared co workers home for a visit , and he turns up his No Name stereo to about 200 past the end of the dial and we spend the next 15 min yelling at each other before I split.
rr89955
10 posts
 
Having been taken by Randy's Stereo Outlet, for the lies, deceit and false representation of equipment he was so called selling. But every dog has his day, when I testified and shut him down forever, now things are handled with the West Virginia Attorney Generals Office. It sure would have been nice to have gotten those Marantz nines I paid for. Randy was one salesperson / con artist.
rr89955
10 posts
 
Always remember to report any or ALL fraud to Audiogon and other reporting authorities. It is against the law and is prosecutable. Make sure the item purchased exists and the use of a third party to finalize the transaction if in doubt. If the wrong item is shipped instead of the purchased item, it becomes a civil matter and harder to prosecute! Use the services of your states Attorney General's office and file with the FBI, interstate fraud is a federal offense. Let's get these people and send them to jail where they belong. Audiogon is more than willing to help out in these matters!
Regards,
Robert
sit
315 posts
 
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.
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