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Alcohol + Vinyl = Disaster...

I aways try to stay away from 'home' so to speak, when I have consumed some alcohol.

The reason: I know I will try to play some LP's and I know I will smash the cartridge into the record. Period. (I do not trust myself when I get 'phylosophical'.)

Luckely it has not happened to me yet. I have heard some dreadful stories of vinyl lovers busting a +/-$2000 pick-up when 'intoxicated'. Shame!

I guess there is some very 'interesting' stories regarding this subject... please do share.

Kind regards,
Dewald Visser
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dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
I have a built in mechanism that keeps me from getting into trouble with this. I don't enjoy music as much after more than 2 or 3 drinks. My ears go south real fast after that point. I don't spin vinyl and I don't work in my woodshop after any drinks.

I've done enough damage completely sober; snapped cantilevers, broken tonearm wires, even blown amp fuses. Pretty boring, I know, but that's my experiences.
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jyprez
241 posts
 
The only destruction I've wrought after one too many is to drop a mint original Savoy copy of Nat Adderley's "That's Nat". Interesting that the record label says "non-breakable" but the thing shattered into a million bits.
dewald_visser OP
176 posts
 
You always read about all the pleasure and fun people have with their systems but nothing is never ever "moonlight & roses"!

I have smashed a input tube on my one QUAD II power amp with the signal cable's heavy RCA plug! This completely sober - just plain clumsyness...

DV

NB - Also dropped a few LP's - clumsy... so I don't want to know how it will go drunken...
stltrains
845 posts
 
please go to your favorite liquor store, and get your favorite spirits, pour a tall glass, get your lp on the table, drop the arm gently, get into your sweet seat, and enjoy your investment before anything that you cant control happens and its gone, dont sweat the small stuff, even after several glasses of my favorite red wine i still can make it back to the set before the needle hits the lp, mike
dewald_visser OP
176 posts
 
My turntable doesn't have an automatic arm lifter - it is all - all - manual.

I do enjoy my bottle of "Nederburg - Merlot" occasionally.

I just don't want to destroy or damage a LP or the equipment - I'll do my drinkin' elsewhere!

Kind regards,
Dewald Visser
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