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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@lrlacosse It was probably around 1976 that I got my first real stereo. I earned the money by helping my grandfather on the farm and erecting irrigation pivots. An older cousin sold electronics and he let me finance it.  A big Panasonic receiver with built-in 8 track.  Altec Lansing speakers, and BSR turntable.

Your mention of Radio Shack reminded me of a funny story. My first job out of college was working for Tandy.  Anyway, one night there was nobody in the store except me and my manager. Small store.  A lady walks in and is browsing the next aisle over. I get a whiff of some awful smell, so I blurt out "geez, Chuck. What did you do? Sh*t yourself?".  He slowly shook his head and mouthed the word "nooo".  Needless to say, we did not make a sale to that lady. Lol

Playing my mother's Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, and James Taylor records on her Gerard turntable,  Kenwood receiver out to her AR speakers drinking Pepsi doing pushups in front of the woodstove on a zero degree F night.  

@jonwolfpell bursting into flames is funnier than a bunny de-hatted.  Both together would be wonderful.  If I saw a bunny's hat blown off (not Hugh's type of bunny, nor a rabbit) from a a sub, and the whole lot burst into flames, I would consider "It doesn't get better than this!"

I have a 1/2 size commercial fire extinguisher in my hifi room.  About $100?  Spend the money - buy one.  It is good for most fires extinguishable.

I had an oven that 'had an issue'.  The RCD kicked in straight away.  The electrician came round and we flipped the RCD, set the time on the oven, and then an extremely nasty electrical sound from it with the RCD flipped again.  We both instantly jumped back.  It had that smell of fried equipment.  When we looked at the circuit board - we could see - the oven was finished.

Watching 2 new in box GEC Gold Lion KT88s red plate and flash and die in a Michaelson & Austin TVA-1.

$1000 gone in a few seconds.  

Putting in my first hearing aid after years of needing one. Brought tears to my eyes when I turned on the stereo.