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
Power switches on the back are, purportedly, so the component is left on all the time... there's also some macho marketing involved methinks. The switch in front wouldn't bother the "on all the time" scheme now, would it:)
Gregm, that makes sense for solid state. What about the tube equipment like the First Sound preamps, and Modwright modified CD/Universal players? For these, the power switch on the back doesn't make sense for the "leave it on 24/7" theory.

Tvad: I'm with you. Inversely, switches placed in the front can be left "on" 24/7 too. Cheers