Nah - I’d be reporting-in from a burns unit while the fire brigade were still damping-down… 
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Alarm on the gimp-locker playing up again?
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They know better than to interfere with anything - I withhold their beatings if they do…
Short-circuit in the sphincter trainer?
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@Penance doesn’t run off the mains, cupcake 
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That’s what happens if you’re unprotected from Schumann Waves.
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I feel nekkid - actually I am nekkid - I should probably come in from the garden…
Fucking beer powered bungholeblaster
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In Stockport getting my amplifiers back from Simon (@sjs) who has done a tremendous job of getting them back in action. Nice headphones are nice, but class A amps and big speakers are nicer.
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ha … quite possibly !!
I took today off of work as holiday after such a testing day with the apprentice, I felt it was better to avoid him rather than inevitably scream into his ear drums all day long.
After arriving home with a stinking headache because of that moronic waste of oxygen, I decided to put the hifi back together after attempting to repair what I thought was a dry solder joint on my N80ES power amp, making the fixed input terminals dead on the left side.
Cue, my pre amplifier showing its old fault of losing the right channel, then my Denon AV amplifier losing its front left channel again. Last year it did that and I painstakingly disassembled it, reflowed some dodgy looking solder joints and reassembled it, fault rectified. Can’t be fucked this year, dump it heavily a few times on the kitchen floor and went to bed.
Today, I spent some time in the menus of the AV amp assigning the Surr. Back channels for “biamping”, meaning the front audio is sent to the speaker terminals and pre outputs for said channels, job’s a good’un. Decide to ignore the Sony pre amp losing a channel but email Serge asking if he will take it from me to check it out some time, he says yes.
I lug the Pass B1 Buffer I assembled last year and connect it to the record outputs of the Sony pre, taking advantage of the multiple inputs/phono stage. Turn volume up to a reasonable level, it’s fucked, huge distortion. Swore loudly at it, put it back upstairs.
So…
- Lugged the Sony pre amp upstairs, lifted the lid, connected it to my Parasound amp, fault is gone.
- Screamed at the innards.
- Lobbed a screw driver handle around the PCBs.
- Found a loose connection.
- Fixed it.
Stereo all back together, employ the attenuators @freefallrob so kindly has loaned me (they solve my issue perfectly, thanks mate!). Have been playing jazz most of the evening whilst the wife watched videos of Husky dogs screaming like mother fuckers because they don’t want to come home from the park.
Oh yeah, I also took delivery (it’s at my desk, but phone alerted me) of a Behringer NU1000DSP power amplifier. Mwahahaha.
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and you were doing so well up to that point
Well, reasonably well
Actually not so well, but that’s no excuse to order a Behringer
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Edd’s trolling is getting out of hand…
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That’s going beyond trolling and into outright abuse.
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Serge and Behringer in the same post.
tl;dr
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Ha.
Bought it to use for as part of a PA system for my brother’s engagement party, it isn’t going to be in the hifi stand.
Also happy to report, everything still behaving itself this morning.
No worries mate, it’s not a loan they are yours.
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Sitting in a waiting room trying not to hurl and posting stuff on here.
Thanks man.