Embarrassing Moments

Tinkering
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Like all tinkerers / tweakers I can never leave my setup alone. Even though a voice says “it’s fine, leave it alone” I cannot help myself. When it does not work as a result - first I beat myself up, oh and the Roon !

So here they are :

Typical - all the end points have disappeared. I hate Roon - why couldn’t I just leave it alone ??? Etc etc - DAC is USB connected but I had the optical input selected. That one was 2 hours but…

The worse one - tinkered and absolutely no sound as a result. Hours of troubleshooting ensues. My SO says “perhaps you just need to turn the volume up” After a major tirade of abuse " you don’t know what you are talking about" I sheepishly turned up the amp volume and wanted to die…

Tell me I am not the only one ??

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You are not alone!

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I spent a few hours today moving some subs around and taking REW measurements. At the end of the day the subs are basically back where they started. At least I could skip the gym :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve had plenty of apply palm to forehead moments but I’ll keep most of them to myself. Glad you got it sorted.

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The sub crawl - why do we do it ???

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Us who like to tinker, or improve our systems as we tell our SO often end up in these situations.

My wife says to me, I thought you were improving your system and now it’s broken :joy:

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But you now know you got it right the first time :+1:

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This thread ain’t big enough for all the palm slapping forehead moments I have suffered ( mostly self created) over my Audiophool journey.
It’s a labor of love :joy:

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The one that gets me the most is when I turn off the WiFi on my phone to troubleshoot slow loading internet and just use data…and forget to turn it back on again. Then after three reboots of the core, I realize why I can’t connect and turn WiFi back one. Amazingly, all is well after that.

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And there I thought it was just me… I feel sooo much better now.

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Happened too me when I moved a Nucleus where it was being used as core and endpoint (as recommended in this forum) to a place closer to the router/network switch to function solely as core. Couldn’t get the thing to work- multi component screwup: Ethernet cord incorrectly built first, then God knows what. A couple of resets later all was well- until Roon 2.0. Then that got sorted out. I often note that the greatest enemy of good is better- because I often just can’t help the lure of better.