HELP - I crushed my cinema!!!

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The ladder I was standing on last night collapsed under me and I fell 6 or 7 feet onto my amp and bluray with the ladder providing a hard shearing edge!!!

No broken bones thankfully just severe pain BUT I looked over at my gear and the hdmi cable from my amp to projector and the hdmi from my bluray to amp were both smashed and ripped to shreds - the entire HDMI head on the cables were bent 90 degrees and then fell off revealing all the inards - 3 heads destroyed on 2 cables.

Also one of the speaker posts has been bent and is now loose. Once I could walk again i hooked up somespare HDMI cables. My HDMI sockets looked intact but are now looser (much looser then adjacent HDMI slots) on my amp and also on the bluray player they are loosish. The question is does it matter?

I tihnk im lucky the hdmi cable sheared and tore rather then the amp socket ripping out but when I realise the force (the HDMI cable is very thick and tough plastic at the head) I worry what damage I might have done that i cant see.

Anyway everything 'appears' to work and I will rerun audessy to see if the speaker is working normally where the binding post is damaged.

I treat my stuff with kid gloves - it cost me a fortune - I have a denon 4810 and a 4010 bluray which I saved forever to buy and im really worried I have damaged the stuff - clearly it isnt as it once was with loose connections at the minimum

I guess it comes down to the same old debate on whether an HDMI cable canmake a difference - ie if it works and it does - then thats as good as it gets vs varying degrees of hdmi goodness. ie could it be working but less well then before? heck I go to the effort of buying good cables with gold connections etc and then pound it with a ladder and the entire force of my body falling 6 feet

I dont know whether to return the lot to denon for repair or see how I get on

thoughts?

 

[Big Chris]

If it all works OK with new cables, then great.

If not, contact your insurance company. That's what you pay for after all.

 

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Big Chris:
If it all works OK with new cables, then great.

If not, contact your insurance company. That's what you pay for after all.

+1 on that.

 

[Anonymous]

Cheers Chris

I guess in a nutshell what i am wondering is whether it could appear to work but in fact work less well then previously.

As i understand it if an HDMi fails - eg if the run of cable is too long you can experience 'sparklies' - obvious digital artifacts but essentially it either works or it doesnt. I beleive this to be contrary to WHF consensus - ie that not all HDMI signals and thus all HDMI cables are created equal - hence i could experience lesser sound or poorer images without obvious digital evidence like sparklies.

 

[Big Chris]

The problem is gonna be are you gonna hear differences that aren't actually there, just because you're expecting to hear differences.

If so, it might be worth contacting your insurance company anyway. They'd probably send them for an inspection and/or repair before paying out for new stuff anyway.

 

[Anonymous]

yes - I probably ought to dig out the insurance policy and hope it covers DIY disasters........