My new 250 just went KABOOM!

Posted by: Todd A on 19 December 2003

My new-style NAP 250 that I've been enjoying since May just went KABOOM! More specifically, I was sitting there, listening to Ivo Pogorelich play Chopin's B-minor scherzo at a moderately loud volume, then, then, I heard a really, really loud clank and smelled something burning. I thought it was the Joseph, but when I hurriedly plugged my MA in and - nope, 'twas the 250. All is unplugged and ready to be taken back to the stereo shop tomorrow.

Needless to say, I'm very displeased at spending over $4000 on an amp to have it blow up during a solo piano piece played at a volume lower than I usually listen at. If my speaker is damaged, I'll be really pissed, and I will never buy Naim again. I certainly hope that the folks in Chicago can fix this quickly so I won't have to listen to too many of my Christmas operas through my Nait.


"The universe is change, life is opinion." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Posted on: 29 December 2003 by JeremyD
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Ranson:
What word is being suggested to replace 'effeminate'? Are we also deleting 'masculine', 'butch' and 'hairy chested'?

I find the ignorance and intolerance of the 'politically correct' very depressing. I think 'commissar' resonates better with their instincts.
I think the problem is that those on the forum who, like Paul, would not object to being described as effeminate have difficulty understanding why the rest of us would feel insulted if so described, and why we therefore do not wish to see others insulted in this way - especially when it is utterly gratuitous, as in example in question.
Posted on: 29 December 2003 by Paul Ranson
If I were effeminate I would not object. However to describe me as 'effeminate' would be a lie, which is offensive for other reasons.

I do seriously object to the word 'balding'.

'effeminate' is a word with a good Latin etymology. There are men who can correctly be described as 'effeminate', IME this doesn't imply they are gay. And if it did, who cares?

Paul
Posted on: 29 December 2003 by herm
Paul,

Bald has excellent germanic etymology.

Herman

<Let the record say I'm neither bald nor hairy chested, and I was once voted the most heterosexual writer in the language>
Posted on: 29 December 2003 by Paul Ranson
Clearly all words of Germanic origin are offensive. Glad to clear that up.

Paul
Posted on: 01 January 2004 by Nime
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Ranson:
Clearly all words of Germanic origin are offensive. Glad to clear that up.

Paul


Sir! Sir! Please Sir!? Paul just said "Germanic" Sir! Wink

Happy New Year og Godt Nyt År

Nime

Everyone has the right to be wrong.
Posted on: 01 January 2004 by TomK
Just watched a later episode of Cheers on cable tonight. I'd forgotten just how bad the Kirstie Alley days were. Apparently the sight of a fat German in early 1900s costume running about waving a sword screaming "poof-der" was regarded as quite funny in the US in the early 90s.