Premature gear defenestrations

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.

I’ve sold and regretted quite a lot over the years. There are many instances when I’ve sold and rebought later. There even are a few instances where I’ve sold and rebought a piece 2 or 3 times! But as time marches on and the system has evolved upwards...I’m hard pressed to think of a piece that I’ve sold (at least) once that I couldn’t live without today, or that I think was close enough to achieving next-level "nirvana" to warrant current best-available tweaks & tube treatments.

Probably the closest is when I sold my VAC Renaissance III preamp w/ phono stage option. I could certainly live without the line stage section (even though it was nice) - that’s why I sold it. But wow, did I ever miss its phono stage. I tried to convince myself so hard the Rogue Ares was on par with it - but it wasn’t. I sold and rebought the Ares 2, 3 times (including Magnum upgrade version) trying tube rolling, SUT rolling, and all manner of tweaks to bring back that VAC phono sound. Each change seemed to bring temporary relief for a day or 2 - but then inevitably melted away leaving me where I was before. Finally I just bought the (then) new VAC stand-alone Renaissance phono stage, and even though it cost a lot it was well worth it.

I would’ve been happier, with less wasted time and money if I’d kept the VAC Ren III just for its phono stage (even bypassing the line stage, as necessary) until they released their standalone Renaissance stage.

@mulveling Thanks for that account!