Naw nothing depressing about blowing stuff up - you must have brought your own depression to the thread. My contribution is at least a tube length of TO220 MOSFETs when I was developing my MOSFET output stage amplifier - the smell of the smoke FETs let out is still ingrained in my memory even now, almost 30 years later...
Richard, it was simply an innocent humorist comment.
* Carl, our OP (of this thread), is probably the most humorist member here at WBF.
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Emoticon it, or emoticon not. ...I love life, real life, and when things blew up they are usually accidents that could have been prevented. We are careless sometimes, to our own consternation. ...And I experienced it myself first-hand in the past, at my very own and costly expense.
...For me it is depressing (not in a negative way, but realistic one), because it reminds me of my own human weaknesses. And when you are emotionally sensitive to the things you destroyed in your life (by careless actions), then it is totally and perfectly natural to say the things we sometimes say, because they're our own, and we are reminded by other's own 'accidents'.
Yes, like anyone else I blew up few tweeters in my years (from graphic EQs), and over-rode couple amps, but nothing compares to abandoning all your music and audio gear because you forgot of who you were, and couldn't handle the pressure that sometimes life brings with it. ...Simple human nature. Some can escape it, others can't.
Easily over $100,000 I blew up; radically!
