Hey Guys , just throwing this in hoping it will help get some more stories posted. Not really an entry in the Karma as the cost of shipping a set of cables down from up here would be toomuch. I do plan to support Cyroset soon though, going to order a pair of preamp tubes for my newly aquired Jolida jd302C (my first tube amp that I am really enjoying)
Ok, no fire or smoke here but it is audio related and also shows the innosence of kids.. it was funny at the time
Last fall i decided to build a pair of X LS Encores for my niece for Christmas. Her room is painted pink with a fairly dark purple trim so I decided the speakers would also have to be the same purple Now being that my neice lives inthe same house and regularily comes out to the garage to check out what I'm doing, I was going to have to come with some story as to why I was painting these speakers purple...
I came up with the plan to tell her my buddy Ron (who she has never met) was having me build a pair of speakers for his wife and she wanted them to be purple. I told her that I needed to take a picture of her room to show Ron the purple and to see if it would be suitable for his wife. My niece thought that was pretty cool. We really did end up going and taking the picture just to keep her happy.
A couple days went by and I told her that I had good news. Ron's wife liked the color and that is what we were going to use
Anyway, she ended up helping me paint (she rolled a couple of the panels) and did the grill frames herself... she felt like she was really helping out .
I actually thought she had figured it out and was just playing along with the story.
Got them all done and she helped me pack them in a box to get ready for shipping. One day while she was at school I stashed the box where she wouldn't find it and told her they had gone out .
Christmas morning soon arrived and I was anxious to see her reaction when she discovered the fact that she had actually been working on her own preseant and the story was a cover.
She was clueless as she ripped open the box and peeked inside... then a look of pure confusion. The first thing she said was " Uncle, I don't get it ... why would Ron have you make me a pair of speakers ? "
LOL, not exactly what I figured she'd say but what the heck, it was priceless
Thought I had one of her actually pulling them out of the box but can't seem to find it
hope this helps gets some more storeis going !!
-jay
