Ok, I've got to admit I'm an f'ing idiot

Ron Temple

Wife is out of the house and sampling music at moderate volume...decide, ok, let's check out Pink Floyd's "Pulse" again. Volume starts at ~ -16...sounds good...let's crank it...-4, 0, +4... crash..bang. My new Mordaunt-Short surronds were on my mantle, about 3-4' behind my LP...not any more. My right surround, pictures of my wife's ancestors, etc. took a 4' walk onto my fireplace. I feel like I took a **** on my couch. When I turned it down to -24 it was still loud...it's just that extremely loud sounded better. OK, let's clean the disaster up...Now, I've got a dinged speaker, sounds great, but I'll never get it's value(nicks & whatever).

I guess those rear ports really do mean something :eek:

I fell like such an A**hole...

Mike Reeter

I would't say that you were an F'ing idiot... or even a A**hole.

Just a Dumb A$$

Kidding,of course...with DVD's like Pink Floyd around,it's very hard not to get a little carried away once in a while.

You might try some of the "blue tacky stuff" sorry,I can't think of the name right now...adhesive that helps hold speakers in place on stands and where ever.

G-2

Don't be to tough on yourself, it's water under the bridge, you've learned a valuble lesson, time to move on.

Now if you do it again then there might be an issue. Of course we're referring to the definition of crazy (doing the same exact thing over and over and expecting to get a different result 'next time').

Let it go, and have a great weekend!

liordra

Ron Temple wrote:

sounds great, but I'll never get it's value(nicks & whatever).

hi fi is not an invesment, (or a very poor one if u insist)

liordra

Ron Temple wrote:

sounds great, but I'll never get it's value(nicks & whatever).

hi fi is not an invesment. (or a very poor one if u insist)
as long as the speakers sound ok .. its all good ..

dane_peterson

Just be glad you can get away with turning it up that loud. Not all of us have those freedoms. Gotta think POSITIVE.

beardog03

Ya know, Dane is right ...

I think about how lucky I am to have a house where the volume levels is entirely up to me......not the neighbors

as far as investment purposes..........eh ?!
I am just anal when it comes to the sight and sound of my gear..

don`t care if I can sell it at the moment, but when ya do deside to sell...

you will have to eat the lower price it will bring because ......

good music happens.....
**** falls

just keep it forever and fix the cosmetic problems..

problem solv-ed

blue tak `em , and crank her back up !!

reeltrouble1

Collateral damage to non-audio related objects is unavoidable. You can take all the precatuion you like but something is going to take a hit eventually, this is acceptable in your case.

Your speaker is now "customized" a tested, battle scarred veteran deserving of a medal, hold her close to your heart, she is there for you and only you.

Now get back in there pump up the volume and Rock On.

RT1

beardog03

zachery !

ben62670

Ya know that spongy like matt material that has like a mesh/bead construction? It is used in kitchen draws, and on shleves. That can help with things getting mobile. You should be happy that you have "The Power to Move Things Via Music"

Ern Dog

I think it is important to see what your rig sounds like at high volumes. I do that every now and then. You had got new speakers and the house was all yours- so the timing was perfect to take if for a test run. Don't sweat it Ron.

Ron Temple

I think the cut was "Sorrow", the one w/ Gilmour doing a heavy distorted guitar coupled with extreme LFE deep into the 20s, a transient must have been mixed into the back right, cuz it launched itself and the left didn't move . I was playing the high bitrate DD version. On 2 channel I still have another 6 db headroom at +4 per the meters on the TFM 35, so I wasn't concerned with clipping. It was seriously loud though. I rarely play anything louder than the high - teens, mostly in the low -30s. Just had a wild hair last night, recapturing my youth when I saw PF at the Oakland Coliseum in the 70s. Pretty much the same show as a matter of fact, a few newer songs, no RW, but DSOTM was exactly as I remembered.

I like these M-S 902s, but I'm just glad I haven't found the right set of M5s or 7s yet. I'd hate to prong a vintage piece.

schwarcw

Playing music at sonic levels require floorstander's with spikes anchoring them to the floor.

Mike Reeter

recapturing my youth when I saw PF at the Oakland Coliseum in the 70s. Pretty much the same show as a matter of fact, a few newer songs, no RW, but DSOTM was exactly as I remembered.

yep,I also saw them in the early 70's...they were promoting their lastest album...Dark Side of the Moon.

I will never forget that concert,even though I couldn't remember my name at the time:D

cfrizz

All of you rave about the DSOTM! I guess at some point I'm going to have to get it to hear what all the fuss is about!

hearingimpared

Hey Pal look on the bright side . . . you didn't blow your ears!!!! They can't be fixed or replaced (not properly) the other stuff can.

Ron Temple

hearingimpared wrote:

Hey Pal look on the bright side . . . you didn't blow your ears!!!! They can't be fixed or replaced (not properly) the other stuff can.

My ears are fine...it was loud, but not as loud as most content above reference level. This concert has some sort of dialnorm solution I think...

Mike Reeter wrote:

yep,I also saw them in the early 70's...they were promoting their lastest album...Dark Side of the Moon.

I will never forget that concert,even though I couldn't remember my name at the time

One of the 3 or 4 best concerts I've ever seen...up there with Genesis "The Lamb", ELP "Welcome Back" ... and yes I was totally bent too.

The 2nd Pulse disk is DSOTM in it's entirety, so if you've never seen it...check it out. The whole concert is pretty spectacular you might want to wear shades...:D

Mike Reeter

Yes,I have the Pulse pair,spectacular show...I NEVER tire of watching it,catch a little something new every time I see it.

Polkersince85

Thanks for the tip, guess I better move my 2.3tl's off the mantle.......:eek:

Bill Ayotte

My stupid self tipped over the dvd rack last week while listening to John Legend, of all things. 180 dvds on the floor, a puzzled look from the roommate, and the relocation of the rack later, all is well. Hindsight being 20/20, putting the dvd rack so close to the sub WAS a dumb **** idea.....

Deadof_knight

anything in the room that can fall will , I was cranking one night with my old setup and these arent anything to brag about but I had my S8's on top of my 10" sub I cranked it went into the other room on the puter and a couple songs later CRASH !!!!! The whole front plastic shattered. Soooooo We dont do that anymore I bolted them together rassin frassin ****#%$## !!!!!

treitz3

reeltrouble1 wrote:

Collateral damage to non-audio related objects is unavoidable. You can take all the precatuion you like but something is going to take a hit eventually, this is acceptable in your case.

Your speaker is now "customized" a tested, battle scarred veteran deserving of a medal, hold her close to your heart, she is there for you and only you.

Agreed. I don't even have the bragging rights to say that my damage was done because I was-a-rockin'. I moved my entertainment center out to do something as my very first post on this forum states, and little did I know....as I was pulling the entertainment system out, the speaker cord was underneath the PSW1000 sub (which is quite heavy)......next thing you know *crash* yup, down comes the speaker.

We all have things that "happen"......but i will tell you this. It won't happen again! Lesson learned! Don't feel bad, man. It happens to the best of us.;)

hearingimpared

treitz3 wrote:

Agreed. I don't even have the bragging rights to say that my damage was done because I was-a-rockin'. I moved my entertainment center out to do something as my very first post on this forum states, and little did I know....as I was pulling the entertainment system out, the speaker cord was underneath the PSW1000 sub (which is quite heavy)......next thing you know *crash* yup, down comes the speaker.

We all have things that "happen"......but i will tell you this. It won't happen again! Lesson learned! Don't feel bad, man. It happens to the best of us.;)

Well now that we're all fessin up to stupid deeds, here's one. My neighbor is a contractor and since we've moved in he's been doing door hanging, storm door installations etc. Well he hung the door between my media room and the kitchen but never finished the molding. I purchased the molding and he went to work. I was busy doing something duh duh duh!!! and he asked me if there would be any problem doing some electric sawing of the molding. . . not paying attention duh duh duh I said go ahead.

He left . . . .'




I walk into the media room and my rig is under a good 1/8 of saw dust and wood chunks. Even though my dust cover on the TT was down there was saw dust in and on there too. I had to shut everything down especially the amps cause of the air vents and do a complete dusting & vacuuming, inside and out. I was shitting a brick cause I keep all the electronics powered up and was afraid some saw dust would have caused a short in one the three amps.

We shall see.

Deadof_knight

Oh SNAPS !!!! think i woulda had a lil hissy and then freaked out is it ok oh my god !!!!

Hope all is well. My wife doesnt touch the entertainment center on her own accord, I told her I got it honey let me have the pledge and glass cleaner and the plastic wiping cloth and the shop vac , get my clean room suit out hehehehe, she said sure it all yours !!! Dont touch its all mine mine I tell you !!

hearingimpared

Deadof_knight wrote:

Oh SNAPS !!!! think i woulda had a lil hissy and then freaked out is it ok oh my god !!!!

Hope all is well. My wife doesnt touch the entertainment center on her own accord, I told her I got it honey let me have the pledge and glass cleaner and the plastic wiping cloth and the shop vac , get my clean room suit out hehehehe, she said sure it all yours !!! Dont touch its all mine mine I tell you !!

Yep so far. I just cleaned everything off and took some compressed air and blew out the power amps.

As much as my wife love listening to the rig she's afraid to touch anything except for the digital player's remote and the volume control. I've been trying to get her to learn how to clean, demag, destatic, a record, oh yeah I forgot, clean the stylus, place the clamp on properly, flip the switch on the preamp and then sit down and listen but she's having none of that, LOL!!!

cfrizz

:eek: WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!:D Now that sounds like a real SMART woman! Good God! Whatever happened to just turning it on, sitting down & listening???:eek: :eek:

hearingimpared wrote:

As much as my wife loves listening to the rig she's afraid to touch anything except for the digital player's remote and the volume control. I've been trying to get her to learn how to clean, demag, destatic, a record, oh yeah I forgot, clean the stylus, place the clamp on properly, flip the switch on the preamp and then sit down and listen but she's having none of that, LOL!!!

hearingimpared

cfrizz wrote:

:eek: WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!:D Now that sounds like a real SMART woman! Good God! Whatever happened to just turning it on, sitting down & listening???:eek: :eek:

I knew that you'd get a kick out of that one!

wirebill

Hello,
I just wanted to point out that Roger Waters was in Pink Floyd until after the release of "The Final Cut" in 1983, so if you saw them in the 70's, I'm pretty sure that waters was with them. I saw them do "The Wall" show in the Nassau coliseum in New York in 1980 and Waters was there. I have also seen Waters on his own four or five times including his most recent DSOTM show.
Bill

Ron Temple

wirebill wrote:

Hello,
I just wanted to point out that Roger Waters was in Pink Floyd until after the release of "The Final Cut" in 1983, so if you saw them in the 70's, I'm pretty sure that waters was with them. I saw them do "The Wall" show in the Nassau coliseum in New York in 1980 and Waters was there. I have also seen Waters on his own four or five times including his most recent DSOTM show.
Bill

Yes, I saw RW with them...I was referring to the Pulse show...

louthewiz

Ok got I got a good one my neighbor comes over to demo mission impossible 111 and sure enough we wanted to watch the bridge scene,
So I decided to crank it up and my 245i fried my monoblock amp which was rated at 160 wpc , so I took the amp for repair and the guy tells me that it wil cost more to fix than just replacing it.
So I ended up replacing it with a 200 watt amp but I won't fry that one for sure....

jflail2

I have thoroughly enjoyed "Live at Pompeii" being released on DVD as well. Good call on Pulse, I'll have to dig that one out tonight!