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Your Worst Audio Breakdown

Checking out the forum today and I saw mention of a posters' 1st breakdown, and another about a fella with a broken tape deck wondering about fixing it. He than tells us that 3 other parts of his rig are in need of repair (whoa!). Got me to thinking, in close to 30 yrs of being in this hobby, I ruined a cartridge (my fault!) and I blow fuses on my amp from time to time. That's it! I'm wondering; am I just extremely lucky or what!?

Equipment failure is the nightmare of any audiophile, what's been your experience with gear breakin' down?
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hevac1
811 posts
 
In the 80's I had 2 ARC D115 & SP8 pop all tube plus other items inside and had to be totally rebuilt, out of warrenty.
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tabl10s
1,008 posts
 
My fault:

Powering a Plinius SA100 MKII with no cables attached.

Burned out an Op Amp on a tweak by squirting cleaning liquid in an RCA which entered the cable.

Girlfriend's Fault:

Showing off to a friend and turned the system on with the volume on high. Blew a tweeter resulting several weeks down-time with shipping/burn-in.
tmsorosk
1,013 posts
 
Tab110, you let your girlfriend mess with your system? My wife won't go near, tells her friends she'd probably be escorted off the premises just for getting to close.
ohlala
993 posts
 
I too replaced a Counterpoint. The preamp starting producing distortion and the red waring lamps came on, so I used that as an excuse upgrade.

More dramatically, I dropped a speaker on to the pavement and busted the cabinet. Luckily Hales was still in business. If that happened now, I would not be as happy to upgrade.
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jadem6
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I'm not sure if it was the flames that came out of both sides of my Marantz amp in 1970, or the time I burned up a Plinius amp that subsequently blew all the drivers in my Dunlavy III speakers, or is it now when my Aesthetix Callisto pre-amp flashed popped and died. It is one vacation in California while I stay in the cold, with an unknown price to be paid.
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