What about a product can irritate you?

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!

Unhinging the CD case is a novel approach, but is removing the sticky tape that big of a deal? I admit I can't do it quickly without the aid of a blade, so I keep a pen knife handy. If you try to remove the tape lengthwise along the edge of the case, you'll have problems. I use the pen knife to peel up the tab at one end of the case. Then it's easy to peel up the tape along the first face of the case, then lift the whole thing off the edge of the case and then the other side in one piece.

Then I ball up all these lengths of tape, sticky side out, and use them to clean my stylus and de-lint my clothes so I look sharp while listening.

1 crowded rear panels
2 internal switches
3 humming components (like my new cable box)
4 $500 remote controls
5 waiting for tubes to warm
6 slow responding cd players
7 I hate CD case wrapping with the intensity of 1000 burning suns.
8 products with advertisements that claim the product will change my life more than a face to face with God.

Another one is dealers who won't Sell to you over the phone/internet. I live in Montgomery, AL where there are really no high end audio stores. I must go to Birmingham, for example, to purchase McIntosh equipment. Fortunatly there IS a place called Audiogon............ever heard of it??? ;)