My repaired PV1 arrived on schedule yesterday morning, accompanied by an unusually grumpy UPS delivery man: after I thanked him for bringing it to my (ground floor) flat & signed the electronic delivery acknowledgement, I politely asked him if he'd mind putting in my lounge for me, an additional distance of less than 6 metres, explaining that I suffered from arthritis in my spine (the box weighed about 21kg). His response was "yeah, and I've had 2 heart attacks!". Slightly nonplussed, I offered to share the load with him. At this point he just grabbed the box off the floor outside my door and barged past me towards the lounge. I just had time to tell him to put it on my sofa, which he did, and then he stormed off. I still haven't quite figured out if he was having a pop at my disability, or was really putting himself at risk of a further heart attack by doing a heavy manual job! It takes all sorts...
Anyway, a friend called by later who helped me unpack it, and also held my flashlight above the corner unit my gear lives on & in, beneath my TV which can be manoeuvred flush against one wall thanks to a double arm bracket. This enabled me to reach through the bottom shelf of the cabinet and hook up 2 new 3m mains leads for the new subwoofer positions. I did have to move a couple of low wattage items onto a 2-way adaptor to free up two adjacent outlets on my primary 8-way anti-surge board, and the exercise was basically accomplished by me lying prone and feeling my way around at full stretch having first established the arrangement I wanted. When I first rigged it up I had all the cables tidy but as you add leads for this and that you inevitably begin to create a Gordian Knot! So I had to pick my way through the maze as sightless as Samson. Got the main objective achieved after a bit of a struggle and rested a while up to let my body recover. After half an hour, I powered the whole system back up only to discover that I'd inadvertently dislodged the feed to my secondary board. Accepting that fate was not totally with me, I powered everything down again and did a second grovelling stint. It wasn't too bad, and I secured the wayward connector fairly quickly, still working by feel. Although it was awkward, it was much easier than pulling the heavy unit away from the corner and then endeavouring to slide it back into place without dislodging or trapping the myriad of connections. Everything worked again on second power-up, so all I did then was disconnect the working sub-woofer (which I had jerry-rigged just to check that it worked when the seller brought it over, using the flying mains point I sometimes use to connect my laptop into my system) roll it away, and roll in the repaired one and reconnect. Simples! B&W had done their magic and the repaired is good as new. Spheroid sub-woofers rule, OK! It was at this point I collapsed in my sofa planning to finish the job today, i.e. stripping back the bare ends of Ken's new cables, attaching my double screw banana plugs to the appropriate ends and taping up the two surplus wires on each, rolling the subwoofers to their new locations, connecting them up, and then the fettling. It all seemed so feasible. THEN I woke up this morning feeling like I'd been run-over by a steamroller. Took PRN painkillers at about 5:30am, and spent 90 minutes being grumpy with the cat whilst struggling to deal with my basic needs and her more extensive and persistent demands. Took another 60mg Codeine + 4mg Diazepam about 6:15am since no real improvement. At 7am, the penny dropped - I had missed the previous night's 300mg (max) dose of Pregabalin (it's a neuropathic painkiller), not to mention my Semi-Sodium Valproate mood-stabilisers (I apologise if I'm coming across as slightly mad today... ;)). My conclusion is that neuropathic biochemistry is a more sure-fire bet than acoustic neuroscience! A suspect that several forum members will concur... So a quiet/noisy but restful day today. Stereo subwoofer installation postponed until manyana. Dave :rolleyes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107045 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
