Did you ever do something shocking to your Linn gear ?

[panobo]

on my previous pair of Kef speakers, I upgraded the Uni-Q (Mid and Tweeter unit). Before screwing the drive units into the cabinets, I decided to 'audition' them...LP12 on...sat down....wow- nice sound....but that drive unit on the RHS is not correctly sat in the cabinet...I'll just turn it slightly...BANG!
By turning the drive unit, the cable to the tweeter had come into contact with the cable to the mid driver..and the system is bi-amped, so 2 LK140's went up in smoke :-(
Boxed up, back to Linn- complete rebuild and lesson learnt!

[linnfomaniac]

(2012-05-17 09:27)panobo Wrote:  on my previous pair of Kef speakers, I upgraded the Uni-Q (Mid and Tweeter unit). Before screwing the drive units into the cabinets, I decided to 'audition' them...LP12 on...sat down....wow- nice sound....but that drive unit on the RHS is not correctly sat in the cabinet...I'll just turn it slightly...BANG!
By turning the drive unit, the cable to the tweeter had come into contact with the cable to the mid driver..and the system is bi-amped, so 2 LK140's went up in smoke :-(
Boxed up, back to Linn- complete rebuild and lesson learnt!

Yes it sucks when something like that happens, total accident.

I used to visit a dealer in birmingham where the guy used to hot swap speakers just leaving the live speaker leads loose on the floor, I warned him several times about it but he didn't listen and said "it'll be alrite" untill he blew an amp up in front of me, an embarrassing episode for him and a lot of explaining to his boss.

[Eldarboy]

Yes, but if I post it and my wife finds out, there could be an in-(Hi-)fidelity case in divorce court!!!

[SaltyDog]

Well there was the time I was told all Klimax gear was self adjusting for voltage. KXO owners beware. They may just have a switch.