What has been a favourite moment in Audio?


My favourite has to be, when a sub blew a bunny's hat off.

I had the 'good taste' to place 2 bunnies on a sub.  Even 'better taste' to place military hats on them.  What I did not expect, while listening to music at an impactful volume, was for a hat blown off a bunny to 4 feet away.

I saw it out of the corner of my eye.  "What was that?" I thought to myself. "A rat?"

No rats fly (often).  It was the best thing ever.  A hat blown off a bunny's head by a sub and the bunny still sitting there with a "I don't know what just happened!" expression.

Awesome is just what happened!

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One of our favorite reps came out to give us a spiel on some floor standing speakers. I can't remember the brand but, as he was doing his demo he cranked the volume and one of the tweeters leaped about five feet from the cabinet. He looked down at the smoking tweeter and said "let's go eat. End of demo". Everybody was on the floor rolling busting a gut. True story!

Unbelievably hilarious!  Wish I could have been there.

Now I am left to wonder how in the hell that is even possible.  Forgot to screw the tweeter in place.  Curious minds want to know!

The rep came from the Twin Cities and the store is in western South Dakota. We thought maybe the tweeter was loosened up in the drive or not tightened up at the factory. He unboxed them at our store. He would leave product at our store to demo. He came in the next morning and boxed them back up again and took them back. We would give him a hard time about it whenever he would  start a hard pitch on some "new thing" he had. He got a raft of sh*t about for years.

Hearing my first Audio Note UK system at RMAF abour 2005 or 2006? "this system sounds like music"....what a concept....

Another favorite RMAF story...Demo in the conf. room of a new SACD recording...The expensive French made SACD player would not play any of the discs the presenter had on hand to play. After 15-20 minutes of trying the guy says;

"Well what do you expect for a $30,000 player? You want it to actually work?" Massive laughter fills the room. A few minutes later he returns with a Japanese made disc player I think it was an Esoteric..."This one is ONLY 18K but it's made in Japan and works"  or something like that...Great memory...