Buttkickers bolted to wall/floor/etc

Then connect the Bluetooth to a good sub amp and EQ out everything but the dish-rattling frequencies.

There’s some tracks or there that specifically emphasize “thump”, but personally I’d just do long frequency sweeps from about 200 down 20.

Love the honesty of your question.

If audio equipment had a harmful/destructive failure mode, we’d have heard about it by now.

Even a loud sound is still a sound, and that means the amp would still be causing the speakers to oscillate. To some, we might describe that condition as “a poor signal-to-noise ratio”.

Usually, equipment dies with pathos… a whine, a squeal, or one singular pop, then ominous silence. The worst is when it dies alone in a dark room between when you turned it off and when it wouldn’t turn back on.

Sometimes a dramatic flash, but that’s rare. There may be the eye-watering smell of burned insulation. There are those with enough experience to even discern where the problem occurred by the sound it made when it died.

My first thought when I read your question was to look at which subreddit I was in… if this question were asked in r/guitar or r/toobamps, you would have many many posts about favorite ways their different amps have died in the past.

Thankfully for audiophiles, hardware death is much less common.

I’ve got the 7A’s, my kids give me grief.

I just turn up the volume and grin.

Seriously, if he doesn’t think they’re “all that” - you really should consider buying them from him. A good amp and proper placement and they will spoil you for most anything else.

snarky answer: spend it on live performances

/s

I’d be quite happy with my Sennheiser HD-6XX headphones and the Schitt hardware.

My room audio is an Adcom GFA 5400 (Nelson’s “great effin amplifier”) into a pair of original Polk Monitor 7A’s with no-name speaker cables as big around as my pinkie.

Interconnects matter, so I had to keep switching them until I was okay with how they sounded. I had to accept that I would always think I could hear a difference.

Same with power, I took someone’s suggestion and Google’d “hospital power cables”, then got the heaviest, shortest ones. I stopped there, because I’m not rewiring the house. Best I was willing to do was a dedicated line/breaker and power-isolating each component from the others.

Then the “one stupid trick”: hanging the speaker cables with loops of fishing line.

This controls the skin capacitance and electrically decouples them from the carpet/floor.