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
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??? ;)
A follow up on my last post - I just read an ad for someone selling some speakers that said the company "offers no discounts under any circumstances". Sure enough, I checked the company's website and it said the same thing. Well, guess what. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AM I DOING BUSINESS WITH THAT COMPANY. This is directed against that Company (who shall remain nameless - email me if you gotta know) and NOT the Audiogon member who is selling his used speakers from this company. Kudos to him for circumventing that companys hard-line policies.