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Audio Cliche Usage Guide

To help all those in need, I propose the Audiogon Audio Cliche Usage Guide.
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Audio Cliche #1 - "My lost is your gain". Correct usage, "My loss is your gain".

Lost means missing, or no longer possessed. If you still own the unit, then you still possess the unit, and it is not lost.

Loss refers to the decrease in the amount of money resulting from re-selling the item at a lower price on Audiogon.
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Audio Cliche #2 - "I sold all my gears." Correct usage, "I sold all my gear."

Gears refers to several multi-toothed wheels used in motors and machinery.

Gear is a collective term that means all the components that comprise a system...like an audio system.
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Your turn...
tvad
entrope
482 posts
 
Audio Cliche - "I listened to my entire CD collection over again when I got my new....."

Correct usage: We all know there are CD's in your collection that you will never play a second time regardless of how good your system sounds.

tvad OP
9,467 posts
 

03-02-06: Mimberman
Audio Cliche #3 - "I propose the Audiogon Audio Cliche Usage Guide". Correct usage, "I propose the Audiogon Audio Malapropism Usage Guide".
I like it!

However, perhaps these are really Malapropped cliches?

I would suggest the phrase, "My loss is your gain", is a cliche...an overused, or trite phrase. Therefore, "My lost is your gain", is a malaprop contained in a cliche...

Thanks everyone for taking this thread with the humor in which it was intended!

"Each new thread is better than the next". Which, of course means each successive thread is worse than the one before. A version of one of my favorite misused cliches of all time. "Each more beautiful than the last."
c5150
115 posts
 
Hey ....you voted for him!
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
it allowed my to see into the music.
essentialaudio
1,147 posts
 
Most of the comments above refer to spelling errors, not cliches. But while we're at it, let's refer to lower frequency sound as bass, not base. To get this discussion back on topic, a few tired, often meaningless expressions come to mind:

"lifted a veil"
"on a whole new level" (which could mean a lower level!)
"jaw dropping"
"blew the (other component) away"
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