Other's Misuse of Your Equipment

I just discovered this while listening to distortion on an LP.

My wife had put on a 45 but didn't know you had to manually move the belt to change speed.

Thinking it was the 45 speed setting she had dialed the anti-skate to 4.5

 

Do Canadian houses still have the traditional punishment sheds like they used to? Could be time for a talkin' to with an authentic seal skin binding.

 

Yikes, this took a turn.

 

My brother's kids wanted to listen to a YouTube video. So they plugged in my brother's HD650 headphones, rotated the ear cups so they were like little speakers on the desk, and turned up the volume so they could both hear. Headphones aren't meant to be used that way.

My brother was worried they may have damaged the headphones. I told him that if both drivers are still working and you don't hear obvious distortion then the headphones are fine and no damage done. The headphones were fine.

 

Sennheiser build quality not withstanding...had I done that it'd have been a trip to the punishment shed.

 

I do that all the time at my job when I need to hear what's going on around me. No problems

 

Had a guest here last weekend and when he saw my TT setup, he looked it over then tried to feel the stylus with his finger until I barked at him to stop. He left the room after that and went and joined the others downstairs, thankfully.

 

Back in the day, I had a GF who thought she knew about turntables. She started to change a record (I had a Shure V15Type3 cart). I said...If you dump the tonearm, you are going to write me a check for $100. You know how this ended.

 

A broken cart and no check?

Your avatar coupled with talk of punishment sheds is a bit disturbing.

 

If you're serious about the shed then you have something seriously wrong with you.

 

She wrote the check, but I ended up in the doghouse for some time.

 

I've heard the excuse, "What's more important, that junk or me?"

What's important is to be with someone who's respectful.

 

You in the doghouse?!?
I would have turned that around right then & there.

 

My friend that used to be a singer in a band in the 60’s (you garage rock guys would know him) tried to pick up the tweeter off the top of one of my B&W Nautilus 805s... he thought it was a microphone!

We both had a good laugh and spent the rest of the evening playing a bunch of Yardbirds, Pretty Things, Kinks, Stones, etc. I don’t think he had actually ever heard some of the stuff on a real hifi - he knew all the tunes but mainly from the radio I guess.

No harm no foul!

 

A friend came over with some pro audio room tuning device. It bent one of the tweeters on my B&W 801S3's. Lucky for me, he got a new one from the OEM.

 

Awesome thread. Not.

 

Before we were married my (now ex-) wife wouldn't listen to me about not dusting my turntable with a rag. She ended up buying me a new stylus. It was a cheap MCS turntable but still...

 

Simple rule in my house, nobody touches the turntable but me.

TV? ok, HT receiver? go for it, Bose QC35 headsets?, use them, Bose Revolve+ bluetooth speakers use them but charge them afterwards. Turntable? Off limits. So far so good....

 

My nephew - otherwise a super sweet kid without an intentionally mischievous bone in his body - pretty much wrapped the stylus of my Rega Exact 2 around the cartridge body. Figured it out two days later. I figure some of it is on me for having it out and ucovered, but that was no good. Lucked into a pretty crazy deal on an AT150Sa to replace it, so there was at least a decent ending.

 

Nobody touches my gear, its a given in the house. I don't even let the cleaning lady into the man cave, I clean it myself.

Edit: thinking about it, I can't remember anyone even trying to

 

We were forced to room with a guy from the basketball team in college. He cranked LL Cool J so loud you could hear it when you walked into the dorms, and we were at the other end of the hall. Blew my buddy's expensive, new speakers.

 

Guests always insist on using my speakers as the best place to park their drinks. When I ask them not, they think I am crazy.

 

Weren't punishment sheds a beloved and well used traditional feature of many detached houses in the British Isles for many decades? Maybe basements were preferred...I'm mainly familiar with the North American punishment shed tradition.

In any case, the tough built Canadian hardwood sheds of the past were a feature in the western provinces and the more ramshackle free form confinement sheds of the American south and the sturdier western sheds were often featured in upscale architectural journals' historical articles. But many modern-day homebuyers find the presence of a good punishment shed in well-maintained usable condition a major incentive to buy. Having a properly appointed punishment shed specially built is cost prohibitive -- they're not cheap -- so homebuyers often shop for a home with a good still-standing shed.

 

Is there a forum approved punishment shed?

 

I once walked into my room where my sister and his boyfriend were blasting one of my cassettes. They hadn't notice-or cared about- that I had a flannel covering the amp. The poor thing was so hot it was about to catch fire. I didn't have a problem with my sister banging his BFs in my bedroom or even my car -which I lent her- but my stereo was off-limits and she crossed the line. Bedroom and car gotbecame off limits too from that day on.