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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
tvad OP
9,467 posts
 
My usage of the language cannot be faultered, I'm only a novelist at the writing game, and my day job is quite hective.
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geoffkait
14,147 posts
 
one of the more poetic cliches: bass is tighter than a bull's rectum
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
The "wife walked in" story. As the story goes, she remarked instantly about the wonderful effect of the tweek you just installed without her knowledge.

I think that the "bleeding ears" cliche for bad sound has worn itself out. How about a "my dog ran out of the house howling" story to take its place.
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