What about a product can irritate you?




What about a product can irritate you, other than the sound?

I thought of this today while attemting to install a new pair of cables. The cables came out of the package in the shape of a Slinky and no amount of bending them, shaping them, stretching them or otherwise trying to reshape them would do any good... they are permanently shaped like a big telephone cord.

I find cables that aren't installation-friendly to be incredibly irritating.

Do you have a pet peeve?

Dean.
reelsmith
IEC's - aftermarket power cords never fit tight so you wonder when is one of these monsters going to fall out while jammin and send a tweeter across the room.
One little pet peeve I have about products is that they will sometimes suddenly perform miraculously immediately before totally failing. You go off to bed saying to yourself 'wow, the stereo really played music tonight'. The next day it blows up on you. If it was performing like rubbish the pain would be much less severe, and you would use it as an excuse to just buy something new anyway.
I know i'll get massacred with this one, but here goes. It's the extreme high prices of some ultra-hi-end audio. Can a $10,000 unit really be that much better than say a $1500 one? Don't get me wrong, I am not critisizing the that hi-dollar stuff - it just rubs me the wrong way. I used to collect coins, but I got turned off the hobby when some coins sold at over $1 million for ONE coin. (Of course maybe I should shut up - I own a $10,000 and $8500 lawn mowers - LOL - but I am a commercial cutter.
hey guys,thanks for teaching me the easy way to open new CDs,,,life is better now ,,all these years of buying CDs and i never figured that out!