Most embarrassing mistake made in hifi

[Jules_S]

Go on, you love it!

Sometimes I wonder at the craziness of it all, Phil, I really do. Obsessing over tiny details, fretting away that I'm not getting the most out of my system, worrying that it doesn't stand up to comparison with other people's systems (yes I know I shouldn't care less, but I do...). Oh and of course convincing myself that I need to upgrade this, change that, add something else.... I'm my own worst enemy, I don't take my own advice and just enjoy what I have. This morning I'm even thinking about knocking out a wall in the lounge and extending it by 4m! And then worrying about the acoustics. MAKE IT ALL STOP!!!!  :fek: :RIP:

 

[audio_PHIL_e]

If you have the resources for a 4m extension, good luck to you!

FWIW my gear was respectable in the day it was designed and may be less so now in terms of the figures one might put on paper in a lab report but I like it. The only things I'd change would be the speakers but I'd need a bigger house ... can't afford the one I've got so will have to downsize and after I've done that my existing speakers should be quite sufficient!

Advice: dig the music! My gear gives me the music ...

 

[Viven]

Most embarrassing Hi Fi mistake.

Russ Andrews

Hmmm

I have found the power cables and mains block good value for money. Have used them for nearly 20 years and am very pleased with them. 

Even now with a new Amp /CD ( Denon PMA1600/Denon DCD1600NE) the Russ Andrews cables mains block to my mind make an improvement to sound. 

Probably biggest hifi mistake was waiting nearly 20 years to buy new equipment. Can't belive the difference 

 

[DomT]

Sometimes I wonder at the craziness of it all, Phil, I really do. Obsessing over tiny details, fretting away that I'm not getting the most out of my system, worrying that it doesn't stand up to comparison with other people's systems (yes I know I shouldn't care less, but I do...). Oh and of course convincing myself that I need to upgrade this, change that, add something else.... I'm my own worst enemy, I don't take my own advice and just enjoy what I have. This morning I'm even thinking about knocking out a wall in the lounge and extending it by 4m! And then worrying about the acoustics. MAKE IT ALL STOP!!!!  :fek: :RIP:

This is something that I really don’t understand. It seems like the hifi is more important than the music. Once I have chosen something I just get on with enjoying it. The only reasons why I have been making changes now was firstly to go into streaming and secondly some physical adjustments were required after a house move eg smaller speakers. 

 

[Jules_S]

This is something that I really don’t understand. It seems like the hifi is more important than the music. Once I have chosen something I just get on with enjoying it. The only reasons why I have been making changes now was firstly to go into streaming and secondly some physical adjustments were required after a house move eg smaller speakers. 

Enjoying the music is the main driver, believe me, but I struggle to exorcise the demons that tell me my system just isn't good enough. It's plain old paranoia really. I am not interested in buying equipment for the sake of it, although I do admit to enjoying the aesthetics. I suspect that much as I really enjoy the bake-offs, they're fuelling my unease - I hear other systems and think that I'm missing out. It makes me pick holes in what I hear at home, and that sparks the next round...

 

[CnoEvil]

With me, it was when I had one of those Twin cassette yoks. My plan was to record from one tape to another - but I pressed the record button on the wrong one - and wiped out the album that I had.  :doh:

 

[Nativebon]

Not realising that my Oppo 105EU had digital inputs ( spdif & USB) till a week after deciding to read the manual.  9_9

 

[DomT]

Someone buying an LP12 and then realising that they didn't buy it from a 'grand wizard Linn dealer' with 'mystical skills' and that their Linn dealer is just a 'competent Linn dealer'. So being concerned that their £4,000 turntable will never sound as good as one set up by a 'grand wizard dealer' they come to HiFiWigWam to confess their mistake and seek reassurance from a friendly bunch of people.

Sorry just trying to keep the thread going.

 

[Nopiano]

Posting on a Wam thread which began on April Fools Day over 13 years ago. 

 

[Ron Hilditch]

Not realising that my Oppo 105EU had digital inputs ( spdif & USB) till a week after deciding to read the manual.  9_9

Please Ian delete the post!  Being male you're not allowed.  I read the instruction manual last week for my coffee machine and discovered a part in the milk pot, I didn't know needed cleaning.  Took it out and found 3 years worth of congealed milk inside.  Two days later the milk pot mechanism broke.  Had to buy a new one today.  See!  He who must be obeyed is watching!  

 

[TheFlash]

Are you talking about MISSION 762 MODEL? 

Special shout out for @Dylan pinet whose most embarrassing hifi mistake, as @radiant red has highlighted, might be replying to a hifi thread a record-breaking 13 years since the last correspondent! No idea how you found it, unless you were googling "embarrassing hifi"...

Given the demographic here, I'm just going to scroll back to the start of the thread to check on how many earlier correspondents have died.

 

[DomT]

Posting on a Wam thread which began on April Fools Day over 13 years ago. 

Exactly, what else is there to do? Retirement in lockdown is a little frustrating!

 

[DomT]

Special shout out for @Dylan pinet whose most embarrassing hifi mistake, as @radiant red has highlighted, might be replying to a hifi thread a record-breaking 13 years since the last correspondent! No idea how you found it, unless you were googling "embarrassing hifi"...

Given the demographic here, I'm just going to scroll back to the start of the thread to check on how many earlier correspondents have died.

Don't know if he has died but at the beginning of the thread someone called Jampal got something stuck in a CDP at a trade show.  Maybe not a true story but who knows?

 

[wizmax]

Don't know if he has died but at the beginning of the thread someone called Jampal got something stuck in a CDP at a trade show.  Maybe not a true story but who knows?

For all you newbies, Jampal , better known as James Palmer, was the originator and first owner of the Wam and we all have him to thank for this wonderful place and he is very much alive but not active on here any more. 

 

[A.S.]

Visiting a dealer in Long Eaton and being told repeatedly by the dealer that all the components I could afford and stretch to buy from him would be “prosaic” but allow me to work my way up to the good stuff (costing six figures). 

 

[PuritéAudio]

Visiting a dealer in Long Eaton and being told repeatedly by the dealer that all the components I could afford and stretch to buy from him would be “prosaic” but allow me to work my way up to the good stuff (costing six figures). 

Scrumptious .

Keith

 

[A.S.]

Scrumptious .

Keith

Scrumdiddlyumptious silver wired midrange. 

 

[PuritéAudio]

Chewy was it?

Keith

 

[newlash09]

Should have stuck with digital

 

[DIB]

Testing an external WD HD 12v PSU with my original Squeezebox Touch, completely forgetting that the SBT runs on a 5v PSU. Oops!  Completely fried the SBT in next to no time.