How did you manage that?I’ve just (15 mins or so ago) blown the driver in my big custom Tannoy jobbies (Canterbury ish), through sheer idiocy.
feeling a little sick and ashamed right now
Not a good start to the weekend.
How did you manage that?
Gutted for you buddy, hopefully another recone isn’t devastatingly expensive and you can get a reasonable turnaround time.Pratting about rearranging my rack. Moved an item than I had switched off, but I think that the cables at the back pulled on the RCA connection to the RHS monoblock. Which was on and playing. Horrible loud noise for a few seconds whilst I hurriedly switched it off.
Immediately I could see on the 15" driver a new rough circular mark from where the voice coil connects (I think). Also now rubbing on the cone of the centre hi freq. driver. Tried it and big driver dead.
Completely my own fault.
Completely gutted.
They had only recently been reconed so drivers were like new.
I’ve never damaged anyone else’s HIFI or computer but I did knock the wing mirror off some poor blokes then new MK1 Ford Focus ST170, I’d been involved in a serious road accident a few months prior and was still learning to walk unaided again, and I went off my feet, taking his mirror with me on a Halford’s car park. I waited until he came back, feeling utterly devastated. He couldn’t have been nicer about it, I exchanged details with him but he wouldn’t accept any payment for the damage and insisted that Ford had fixed it for free. I didn’t believe him so I bought him a full compliment of Autoglym products... we became friends and got into the modified and performance car scene, still mates 16 years later!I have a story, got my current turntable which is a clearaudio performance dc. Purchased a new clearaudio mc to go with. My then girlfriend and her friends had a party one weekend. One evening probably a week later as I went to play a record I noticed the cantilever on the cart was no longer attached! I remember I handled this rather well (it’s only stuff and things after all). I ended up marrying her.
End of last year I was at my friends house and we were drinking red wine, he was demonstrating his brand new 2019 MacBook Pro. I then proceeded to knock a bottle of red wine all over it! I was mortified! He handled well and I paid for the repair, after he declined several times.