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Costliest Brainfart

Yep.

I had one today.

While reorganizing my audio rack, with my TT still pretty on top, I decided I just had to level it just right.  And to make this happen, I decided I just had to place a block of wood under the spikes.  And since the block was fairly thick I just had to keep lifting the front higher and higher.  And higher.  
 

The table slid right off the back and came crashing down onto the floor.  Moerch UP4 arm, bent.  Karat 17d3 stylus, cocked to the side.  The table itself might be salvageable, but I was so disgusted with myself I didn’t bother looking.

A 2K+ brain fart.

Who needs vinyl anyway!

Please list your mishaps if for no other reason than to make me feel a bit better.  😉

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eurorack
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At a show with 200/300 people, I put 120VAC (hot wire) onto a common *audio* ground. Silenced both amplifiers and both speakers.

Took Altec VOTs and Marantz 1060 from my van for substitutes, but...

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fbgbill
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No homeowners insurance covers Brain-farts. If it did, we could not afford homeowners insurance. 

kingbr
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So sorry to hear this. I can fully, unfortunately, empathize. Whilst OCD can sometimes be a good thing, when it comes to adjusting and tweaking components this can be detrimental. In my constant neurotic quest to get every single component exactly level, on all vibration pads exactly even (including my 72 lb center speaker), I have had so many near misses. And it’s just plain not necessary. And I know this…Add in the fact that my rack is so far from easily accessible and every damn time I do something I have to turn into a contortionist-very hard at 54-but I can’t help myself sometimes…The worst thing that happened was I fried my DAC while changing IC’s. Not sure how or why this happened but I know I caused it somehow if for no other reason than I just can’t leave well enough alone…

 

I don’t do vinyl, but maybe the bright side is come back to or cross over to CD’s?

 

Whatever you end up doing, I feel you man and can so relate to that awful feeling. You’ll figure it out and move forward…that’s what we do, no choice. And as my wife constantly reminds me “it’s just stuff”. Stuff can be replaced and in some cases maybe even for the better and less expensive. That can happen

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ezwind
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It wasn’t an audio gear brain fart but I once attempted to back out of my garage while forgetting to open the door. When I heard the sound of the crash and realized what I had done all I could think was what an idiot I was. To this day I still double check that the door is open every time I leave the house. 

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carlsbad2
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I bough a new/used tube amp that uses EL84 tubes.  It sounded good.  Within a day I was eager to do some tube rolling.  I ordered some tubes to try.

 

Then  I remembered I had a sophia baby tube amp with the same tubes....oops, they weren't the same.  They were actually 6P1T...different pin out that provided a dead short.  

I figured it out when no music came out and I smelled the hot smell.  Turned it off but too late.

Openedit up and found the blown resistor.  Only cost $5 and had it back in service the next day but it was a bonehead move.

Jerry

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