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Yes but I'm not sure I'd call it bad luck. My power amp, designed and built by a friend, impressed a dealer whilst he was installing my new turntable. He 'accidentally' shorted the speaker leads whilst pretending to look for the speakers model number . The amp died with a loud bang upon which said dealer immediately offered to have his technician repair it for free. I should have smelt a rat at that point but didn't. I rang the amps' designer that night to tell him what had taken place. He warned me that this dealer had a habit of copying others' designs then having them made up cheaply in China under his own brand name. So, I was on his doorstep that morning only to find him already poised with his camera over the amps innards. His tech arrived just then and looked stunned when I announced I'd spoken to the designer himself who wanted to repair it. Now, I'm not sure if you'd call this experience bad luck or just a nasty encounter with a criminal mind. I still have the power amp and it's been working faultlessly now for years after that brutal attack. Really bad luck struck another time at the hands of a two year old poking holes in all the drivers of a pair of Dynaudio speakers (that's 10 drivers!). You wouldn't think a two year old could manage to get up onto a chair and methodically attack the tweeters, but this one did. Oh, and the insurance company refused to pay up unless I reported the brat to the police for 'malicious damage'. The brat was lucky I didn't commit malicious damage on it!