exploding microtracker

[mdarnton]

I assume that you folks who are indulging yourselves in childish hysteria over one battery incident are relinquishing your use of automobiles, which cause 30,000-40,000 deaths a year in the U.S.?

[Patrick]

I assume that you folks who are indulging yourselves in childish hysteria over one battery incident are relinquishing your use of automobiles, which cause 30,000-40,000 deaths a year in the U.S.?

Irrelevant.  This is a taping board.  Not a particular place to be a fatalist.

-T for being sarcastic about it, too.

[spoogles]

Spoogles,
did you atleast get a refund on your MT or a new unit?  Have you gotten an money back for the carpet damage?

Matt

yup M_Audio has paid me in full for all damages. they definately came through on their end.

[mmmatt]

Spoogles,
did you atleast get a refund on your MT or a new unit?  Have you gotten an money back for the carpet damage?

Matt

yup M_Audio has paid me in full for all damages. they definately came through on their end.

cool.  Another +T for your troubles.

Matt

[sleepypedro]

yup M_Audio has paid me in full for all damages. they definately came through on their end.

nice to hear, chris.  what deck did they buy you? 

[wbrisette]

yup M_Audio has paid me in full for all damages. they definately came through on their end.

nice to hear, chris.  what deck did they buy you? 

I guess the ultimate question would be, would you buy another MT?

It is good to hear M Audio took care of things. I'm curious did they ever expand on what they think might have caused the unit to explode/catch fire in the first place?

Wayne

[dorrcoq]

I assume that you folks who are indulging yourselves in childish hysteria over one battery incident are relinquishing your use of automobiles, which cause 30,000-40,000 deaths a year in the U.S.?

Do the cars cause the deaths, or the drivers?

[spoogles]

yup M_Audio has paid me in full for all damages. they definately came through on their end.

nice to hear, chris.  what deck did they buy you? 

no new deck. think i'll just go lappie if i want to do 24/96 and use the ol jb3 for stealth.

[it-goes-to-eleven]

I assume that you folks who are indulging yourselves in childish hysteria over one battery incident are relinquishing your use of automobiles, which cause 30,000-40,000 deaths a year in the U.S.?

One exploding microtrack in this tiny taping community is statistically VERY significant. Particularly when you consider that they haven't even been out for a year.  The gas released is EXTREMELY toxic and especially dangerous because of the delayed symptoms.

Attempting to compare it to national auto deaths is far out of touch with our taping reality.  Just because people die in cars you are saying that concerns about unsafe recorder batteries are 'childish and hysterical'?

How often do cars spontaneously explode when they are switched on?

[WiFiJeff]

no new deck. think i'll just go lappie if i want to do 24/96 and use the ol jb3 for stealth.

Let me guess: a Dell? 

Jeff

[Brian Skalinder]

One exploding microtrack in this tiny taping community is statistically VERY significant.

But the fact that it happened within our tiny taping community isn't really relevant, except as kind of a shocker to those who use the device.  It could have happened within any community.  Far more meaningful and useful stats might include the much broader user base:  how many exploding MTs out of how many total sold worldwide?  sold in the US?  How do the MTs stats around exploding batteries compare to other devices and batteries of its kind, and the quality standards of M-Audio and/or its battery manufacturers and generally accepted rates of failure within the industry?  Etc.

[aberg]

One exploding microtrack in this tiny taping community is statistically VERY significant.

But the fact that it happened within our tiny taping community isn't really relevant, except as kind of a shocker to those who use the device.  It could have happened within any community.  Far more meaningful and useful stats might include the much broader user base:  how many exploding MTs out of how many total sold worldwide?  sold in the US?  How do the MTs stats around exploding batteries compare to other devices and batteries of its kind, and the quality standards of M-Audio and/or its battery manufacturers and generally accepted rates of failure within the industry?  Etc.

Good points for sure... this very well could have been an unfortunate fluke, relatively speaking.

[mmmatt]

One exploding microtrack in this tiny taping community is statistically VERY significant.

But the fact that it happened within our tiny taping community isn't really relevant, except as kind of a shocker to those who use the device.  It could have happened within any community.  Far more meaningful and useful stats might include the much broader user base:  how many exploding MTs out of how many total sold worldwide?  sold in the US?  How do the MTs stats around exploding batteries compare to other devices and batteries of its kind, and the quality standards of M-Audio and/or its battery manufacturers and generally accepted rates of failure within the industry?  Etc.

I guarantee we will never know these statistics.  M-Audio sure as hell isn't going to post them.  I bet this isn't an isolated case though.

Matt

[rodeen]

Let me guess: a Dell? 

This is from a conversation I had with Cliff (dallman) the other day.  I've been begging him to post it.

Can you imagine what would happen if you plugged your MT into a Dell laptop?!!

[dallman]

Let me guess: a Dell? 

This is from a conversation I had with Cliff (dallman) the other day.  I've been begging him to post it.

Can you imagine what would happen if you plugged your MT into a Dell laptop?!!

I was "hot" that night!