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Knocked over a 2k speaker, yikes!

TitaniumTroy

TitaniumTroy

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While in NYC and before storm Sandy hit, I attempting listen to some speakers at JR's Music World. They were on a riser in a very small and narrow room, and they had some kind of out rigger as a stand at the base. Anyway I tried to toe in the left speaker then moved onto the right to do the same. Then there was a very loud BOOM, oh shit! The left one just fell over while I was with the right speaker.

Another sales guy came in to see what the commotion was, then we got the speaker upright. Except for a nice little crack in a cabinet corner it seemed ok and played ok. Minus the bass just overwhelming the tiny room, next I tried to get the hell out of there before these guys make me buy these Polk LSim707 at $2000.00 a pair. Plus I needed a change in underwear :scared-yipes:

http://www.polkaudio.com/products/lsim707
 
ooooh, someone just lost a whole bunch of GTG invites... :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
 
^--- :laughing-rolling:

Sounds like you dodged a bullet there, TT. Guess we need to put some police tape around the demo speakers at Bat's next year.
 
Mamma, always said "clumsy is as clumsy does". Plus there was no sign saying no toeing in of the speaker because they were on a narrow riser which combined with outrigger feet made them unstable.

One other time, way back in the eighties. When playing a Star Wars CD thru some tower size Infinity Kappa speakers, the woofer bottomed out with a nice KLANG sound. Funny part was I didnt even have the music cranked up very loud.

4 yrs ago I blew one ribbon tweeter on my Magnepan IIIA's, also not playing at a loud level. However I had just moved into my condo, and the larger room need much more power than my 70 watt NAD receiver could deliver. Which caused me to upgrade to a NAD 218THX 225 watt separate amp, problem solved.

Just call me The Speaker DesTroyer!
 
I knocked over a 2K speaker but it was a Bose cube and I just didn't give a shit. :happy-smileygiantred:
 
The RS-8k had a big woofer, some kind of smaller woofer with a grid pattern laid over the inverted dome, the dome mid, and two of their planar tweeters. The tweeters were the best part of the speakers. I never bottomed out the woofer. Used a Hafler XL600 amp to drive them for years.
 
While poking around, I found this video of a refoam of a RS-8k woofer. Reminds me of the necessary refoam work done on the <ahem> Wilsons.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtO-4RtbQY[/youtube]
 
Ok thats it next year I will need to bring my outside boxes so you can break bones and not speakers.
 
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