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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
gregm
3,021 posts
 
For all flavours above:

Excessive use of hyphenation including, but not limited to, the plural -- as in "my amplifier's" (meaning my amplifiers), etc.

"Ruthlessly revealing". Wow. Hardly s/one or s/thing you want to meet in a dark alley at night, with its lights off. Also implies no communication nor interpersonal skills.

Also, the reference to the "non-expert" opinion
"...my (cat/spouse/dog/bat/1yr old...), obviously not an audiophool, (keeled over/picked jaw off the floor/was flabbergasted/was speechless)....(ad lib)"

While we're at it: "...I was speechless..." (but managed to write 6000 quick words for the review).
4yanx
1,576 posts
 
The difference is not subtle (no, it is non-existent!). :-)
trelja
3,215 posts
 
Grant, this thread has me laughing hysterically!
jayboard
301 posts
 
There's a lot of talk about "dampening" various stereo components. The methods described sound like so much trouble... I just decided to keep a spray bottle near my equipment rack and give my gear a nice misting every week, while I'm watering the house plants. I seem to be replacing tubes more frequently now, but overall, it's an easy approach.
tvad OP
9,467 posts
 
Jayboard, the use of the word "dampen" to describe reducing vibration in audio components drove me nuts until I looked it up in Webster's.

dampen (vb) dampening (vt): 1. to check or diminish the activity of: deaden, 2. to diminish progressively in vibration or oscillation.

I always thought the proper word was "damping", but Mr. Webster says otherwise.

Who knew?
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