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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!

bilateral
musicaddict
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Way back in early 1990 while living temporarily in Honolulu I went to a local retailer who played an old Sinatra tune via turntable into a pair of decent bookshelf speakers. It was amazing sound and I never forgot it.  I'm sure it propelled the following 30 years of upgrades...

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coltrane1
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Moments! Buying used gear at great prices!

rbrannen
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In the late 80s early 90s auditioning a full Cello system, I could never afford it but still in love with the cello pallete preamp. Fast forward to my financial reality 3 years ago, spent the day in LA auditioning speakers and was almost ready to give up in disappointment until I auditioned the Legacy Audio Focus XDs.  

wyoboy
283 posts
 

One of my favorite moments was back in 1977 when i read about and then implemented a "Hafler Hookup" adding two small speakers in the rear--hooked up in series--to create a mock surround sound.  It was amazing with live recordings and made you feel like you were in the audience--wowed a bunch of friends until the day i was demo-ing and my buddy jacked up the volume and blew the rear speakers' tweeters...oh well, back to 2 ch...

russwill
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One of our favorite reps came out to give us a spiel on some floor standing speakers. I can't remember the brand but, as he was doing his demo he cranked the volume and one of the tweeters leaped about five feet from the cabinet. He looked down at the smoking tweeter and said "let's go eat. End of demo". Everybody was on the floor rolling busting a gut. True story!

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