Confession time
 

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you - promise.

Mike

Confession time
 

Mike Gilmour wrote:

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike

Why don't you go first?

Ian

Confession time
 

Mike Gilmour wrote:

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike

Why don't you go first?

Ian

Confession time
 

"Ian Bell" wrote in message
...
Mike Gilmour wrote:

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike

Why don't you go first?

Ian


Okay. Red face time. Missus is moving the CD player from one room to another
with the remote balanced right on top of the player. The remote slides off &
hits the floor. Next thing I hear 'The remotes not working' Okay lets see
if batteries making connection - okay - opened up remote - nothing obvious.
As I'd got a lot on that day I went to the computer & ordered another remote
on line. The new remote came and didn't work...thats when I saw a little
switch at the back of the CD player that said 'local/remote' ..it had been
flicked over when she carried it. Anyway I've got two identical working
remotes now and a red face.

Next please.......

Confession time
 

"Ian Bell" wrote in message
...
Mike Gilmour wrote:

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike

Why don't you go first?

Ian


Okay. Red face time. Missus is moving the CD player from one room to another
with the remote balanced right on top of the player. The remote slides off &
hits the floor. Next thing I hear 'The remotes not working' Okay lets see
if batteries making connection - okay - opened up remote - nothing obvious.
As I'd got a lot on that day I went to the computer & ordered another remote
on line. The new remote came and didn't work...thats when I saw a little
switch at the back of the CD player that said 'local/remote' ..it had been
flicked over when she carried it. Anyway I've got two identical working
remotes now and a red face.

Next please.......

Confession time
 

Not really foolhardiness on my part, but a case of destruction
nevertheless:

I'd just recently got my pair of QUAD II valve power amps. They
were my pride and joy; I'd been drooling, lusting and tossing
over pics of them in the "history" section of the contemporary
Quad brochure for months. I was either a very late 17, or a very
early 18, still living at "home", just before going to university.

I'd left them powered up and connected to the Spendor SP1s overnight.

I was woken in the morning by a loud buzzing from one of the speakers.
And a crackling noise. Which was getting louder and more urgent. On
opening my eyes and peering, contact-lens-less through the blurred
haze, I realised that the valve amps were on fire, and the room was indeed
hazy, filling as it was, rapidly with smoke. Indeed, that smoke was issuing
forth from one of the amps with genuinely impressive urgency and dispatch.

Still half asleep, and confused, I half-fell out of bed, stumbled across the
room, and struggled frantically to unplug them.

It turned out that only one of the amps was dying. The mains xformer,
which, apart from recent use, had lain idle for who knows how many
years, was dying.

Having worked for a year or two on Saturdays and during school
holidays at Chatham branch of Sevenoaks Hi-Fi, I'd heard that Quad
had a good reputation for still stocking parts for their long-
discontinued products, I phoned them, explained that I needed a new
mains xformer for a QUAD II, and was happy to be told that they had
one in stock, and it would set me back 60 quid. I said I'd go and
collect it.

Up I went, got it, brought it back, fitted it, and the amp was fine
after that.

I sold the pair of amps after about 4 or 5 years, in about 1993 or 1994.


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

Confession time
 

Not really foolhardiness on my part, but a case of destruction
nevertheless:

I'd just recently got my pair of QUAD II valve power amps. They
were my pride and joy; I'd been drooling, lusting and tossing
over pics of them in the "history" section of the contemporary
Quad brochure for months. I was either a very late 17, or a very
early 18, still living at "home", just before going to university.

I'd left them powered up and connected to the Spendor SP1s overnight.

I was woken in the morning by a loud buzzing from one of the speakers.
And a crackling noise. Which was getting louder and more urgent. On
opening my eyes and peering, contact-lens-less through the blurred
haze, I realised that the valve amps were on fire, and the room was indeed
hazy, filling as it was, rapidly with smoke. Indeed, that smoke was issuing
forth from one of the amps with genuinely impressive urgency and dispatch.

Still half asleep, and confused, I half-fell out of bed, stumbled across the
room, and struggled frantically to unplug them.

It turned out that only one of the amps was dying. The mains xformer,
which, apart from recent use, had lain idle for who knows how many
years, was dying.

Having worked for a year or two on Saturdays and during school
holidays at Chatham branch of Sevenoaks Hi-Fi, I'd heard that Quad
had a good reputation for still stocking parts for their long-
discontinued products, I phoned them, explained that I needed a new
mains xformer for a QUAD II, and was happy to be told that they had
one in stock, and it would set me back 60 quid. I said I'd go and
collect it.

Up I went, got it, brought it back, fitted it, and the amp was fine
after that.

I sold the pair of amps after about 4 or 5 years, in about 1993 or 1994.


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

Confession time
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
...
Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike



Crossed the speaker wires, Nytech went BANG, and promptly set its self on
fire.

The same amp also destroyed a set of mission 701s and id turned the volume
up to high without noticing. pres play and whack, cones nearly popped out,
and tore all the already rotting foam.

edd

Confession time
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
...
Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Mike



Crossed the speaker wires, Nytech went BANG, and promptly set its self on
fire.

The same amp also destroyed a set of mission 701s and id turned the volume
up to high without noticing. pres play and whack, cones nearly popped out,
and tore all the already rotting foam.

edd

Confession time
 

Mike Gilmour wrote:

Any audio tales of stoopid actions .i.e. like plugging in when mains
selector set to 110V...come on, we'll laugh with you not at you -
promise.

Moving into my first flat many moons ago, I was only concerned with the
important stuff - floor cushions, coffee machine and hifi. After getting the
first of two big Kefs up the stairs (a top floor flat, of course), I decided
to take a coffee break before getting on with the rest. As the coffee
brewed, I connected the turntable to the amp and plugged in the speaker. I
get sounds, but realise that only having one speaker means I'm only hearing
one channel. I hit upon a bright idea for hearing both channels - plug both
amp outputs into the single speaker.

No sounds.


--
Wally
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