I figured to take it easy not to mess anything up. It didn't work though. Almost a year ago I had a heard attack, I've said as much.
Today I'm sure it skipped a few beats. If it's because I'm not as thorough or clear thinking or what not...
I started up everything slowly and step by step. So only the main amplifier feeding the main speakers. Right away the speaker with the 10F's began singing
but I failed to hear the other side. I walked over to that side to see if anything was wrong. As I got there I heard loud puffs and crunch sounds coming from
the (yes, the Telos clone) amplifier. I looked that way and saw flashes, smelled and saw the smoke coming out and rushed over to turn it off. The right (10F)
channel kept playing for a few more seconds before it cut off. Silence and a smell of burned components...
This called for a long walk, as I have quit smoking since what happened almost a year ago and kept thinking: "Nobody's fault but mine". I should have checked
the other side before turning on the amp. The spades that connected the conjugation network seemed to have created a short. I didn't know they could as I
was certain they were protected enough by the shrink wrap. Clearly they were able to though... It probably happened when I replaced a modem behind the
curtain there and had to move the array out of the way. Or something like that... I only remembered that it still worked the last time I hit play.
Not sure what to do or even what to think about it. I'm clearly not as sharp as I was before. Sh#! seems to happen more often. Not always my doing, as I
couldn't have helped what happened to the TC9's. But this? "Nobody's fault but mine"...
P.S. to demonstrate how much patience I actually had... me and my son had ordered parts to make each of us a custom keyboard. While we were at dinner
the doorbel rang. The components for one of them. So before I took the speaker into the house I've been assembling and testing one of the two new
keyboards with my son... His board (he ordered another color) has yet to come but he insisted we try the switches etc. After that he helped me get the
speaker inside and went upstairs while I connected it etc... So I was calm as could be... I really thought I was on top of it all...