Rules for an aging audiophile tweaker:
(1) It always pays to take your time.
(2) Keep alcohol away when you are doing something with fragile equipment.
(3) It very foolish to have an amp that pushes out 1000W of power, because someday, inevitably, you will do something to blow up your speakers. (Like dropping the stylus, or shutting down something without muting first, or any number of stupid things.)
(4) Use a multi meter to double check continuity whenever you use solder.
(5) Don't trust your memory to remember left from right and + from -. Mark those cables and diagram those jacks.
(6) Double check everything before turning it on.
(7) Measure twice, cut once & use your glasses (if you wear them).
(8) Plan ahead and inventory before you start a project.
(9) If life interfears, like the dinner bell, don't push your luck to rush and finish. Go eat dinner, then come back, or a costly mistake may ensue (with the equipment or the wife or both).
(10) Take your time (did I say that already).
(1) It always pays to take your time.
(2) Keep alcohol away when you are doing something with fragile equipment.
(3) It very foolish to have an amp that pushes out 1000W of power, because someday, inevitably, you will do something to blow up your speakers. (Like dropping the stylus, or shutting down something without muting first, or any number of stupid things.)
(4) Use a multi meter to double check continuity whenever you use solder.
(5) Don't trust your memory to remember left from right and + from -. Mark those cables and diagram those jacks.
(6) Double check everything before turning it on.
(7) Measure twice, cut once & use your glasses (if you wear them).
(8) Plan ahead and inventory before you start a project.
(9) If life interfears, like the dinner bell, don't push your luck to rush and finish. Go eat dinner, then come back, or a costly mistake may ensue (with the equipment or the wife or both).
(10) Take your time (did I say that already).