an equipment poll

Stuff I have actually owned and used:
Garrard Lab80: perfect, as it was my first ever TT at 15 years old.+4
Same for me J.B.Lansing speakers... +6 and the Fisher amp.+4
Though I would have swapped the Fisher for some other Marantz (If I would have been able to... I was only 15.)
Various stuff I annot now remember... just junk..
more stuff I cannot now remember...
Then, a Carver 1.0 amp,+5 a Carver 1.5 amp.+5
A really great Hafler DH110 preamp I made from a kit, my first audiophile preamp.+9
A crap Sony digital pre with thousands of bells and whistles.. (minus)-10 I was sad I stupidly traded my Hafler for this POS.
Infinity Reference series IIa: my first 'audiophile speakers.. kept them fr 20 years. +8
A Counterpoint pre. Great, but unreliable tube/hybred pre, my second audiophile pre.+8
An Adcom 750, my third audiophile pre, +7
A Forte' 4a amp. A real audiophile amp, (still use) +9
Some really old magnepan MGIIb +7 they shorted out again and I tossed them (I paid $200 for them in the first place)
My current REAL audiophile preamp: Audio Research SP-15. +9(I even had an SP-10 +4.. for a very short time. this SP-15 is way better!!)
An Audio Research PH-2 +8 (it's flaw is it is balanced out only)
Some super deal from dealer B&W 805s with free B&W stands.. +7
I want some Magnepan 3.6 speakers.. I would rate them a+8 or +9 depending on what amp I can find to run them if I ever bother to get them.
I am not even going to bother rating CD players...
or current TTs.
(PS: why do some posters prior to me list ratings with a (-) in front of ALL the theoretically positive rating?)

Different take:
Audio Research: +10 for still being made in USA. -2 for being sold. +6 for still being made in USA with the same great service they had before being sold.
Revel Speakers: +10 for being made in USA. -15 for being bought out, the company factory in New England being shut down, and production moved to some ten cent/hour labor pool country. In fact they deserve a -175 for beingso evil to all those workers who MADE the company what it was worth when it was sold.
+10 for Mark Levinson, until -8 when he had to sell his name along with the brand. Too bad.
-20 for all those small companies that moved production to China. +10 for China for stealing the designs and making those same small companies look stupid.
+ another 10 to Chinese makers, for going beyond the designs they originally stole, and starting to make some great stuff.
-480 for all those small crazy dudes who started making and selling strange crazy/impossible products. Tice Clocks, jars of pebbles, telephone mods. magic chips' you put NEXT TO the CD to make it sound better etc. Who made ALL audiophiles look insane to all non-audiophiles, even if the particular audiophile thought the stuff was crazy!And made it much more UNLIKELY that new folks would ever get into stereo equipment
-300 for MONSTER CABLE. who thinks they own the word. Sorry, I wish FRANKENSTEIN would sue your ass for stealing the word for HIS creation!
+10 for Ray Kimber, for still making some good affordable cables.
+10 to Audiogon, without whom all this noise would not reach your golden ears.