Costliest Brainfart

Then there are the stories of people trying to place heavy amps on lower shelves and thereby ruining their backs for life. It's dangerous out there.

Kingbr - one of the main reasons I messed around with the rack was to pull it out away from the wall more as I hated trying to manipulate all the cabling whenever I swapped preamps.  

I had listened to about five records with the Karat installed.  Probably not much more than 10 records total on the table (at least from me as I bought it used).

I’m not a vinyl only guy for sure.  98% of my listening is streaming, but I had a decent rig for when the urge to listen to a record hit, as I have several thousand LPs.  I’ll bring my old Thorens out for now.

elliott - some people act when in those situations while others just watch and grimace, it appears.

Worst audio brain fart was snapping the cantilever on my Supex 900 Super whilst cleaning it.

The most embarrassing incident happened when backing into a parking spot. Hooked the front bumper on a telephone pole and pulled it completely off with half a dozen coworkers watching.

Thought my future ex-wife wanted my stereo, so I sold it cheap so she wouldn't get her grubby mitts on it. Turned out she was a better person than I gave her credit for and never mentioned my rig. I still miss that gear. Definitely a brain fart. Fortunately, I grew up a lot over that, so I guess not a total loss. LOL