So I'm swapping receivers...

[johnnm]

I switched a Pioneer SX unit for a Marantz receiver in my bedroom setup. I had temporarily set the Pioneer on a box. Proceeding to test the Marantz unit for a few minutes led me to thinking that we're really blessed to have some of these older things at relatively cheap prices and they still work superbly. Enough so that this post was originally going to be about thankfulness.

Literally not two seconds later did I hear my Pioneer receiver crash to the ground behind me. The box was resting on a second box, and had slipped under the receiver's weight.

What kind of karma is that? Stupidity maybe.

 

[Hokieman]

Owwie!

 

[vegabass25]

is it ok????

 

[kermit z]

Yikes! Hope its ok

 

[Sir.Byrd]

Karma is telling you something... :yes:

 

[Brad Muller]

It's been that kind of a season in Ann Arbor.:yes: You're not the first to have something hit the deck. I think I was. I hope it didn't get hurt too badly.

 

[ccheath]

It probably attempted suicide out of jealousy. Apologize to your Pioneer for deserting it for the Marantz.

 

[merrylander]

Makes me think of the time I was carrying a Yammie CR-820 across the shop. I tripped and the Yammie hit the concrete. Pulled the screw holding one of the feet half out of the wood case. That was all the damage.

 

[chathamdad]

Remember the great Marantz magazine ads in the 1970s? They were usually testimonials from people whose Marantz receivers had demonstrated incredible durability under extreme circumstances. One of them was about a guy whose apartment was being burglarized when he walked in and the robbers fled He gave chase in his car and they threw his Marantz out of theirs at like 30 mph. Smashed up pretty bad (there was a picture), but he took it home, plugged it in, and listened to tunes for a while before taking it in to get fixed. I think the Pioneers were at least that rugged.