Companies that won't sell you their product over the phone/Internet. Hey, dealers, it's 2007! Wake up and smell the information superhighway that Al Gore invented!!! ;>)
Wire manufacturers claiming their wire is "more accurate". Know what we use in a cal lab to measure dc to parts of parts per million? Pure copper wire and buff the ends before connecting. Wire mfrs do different things with cables to make diffent results IMHO, not necessarily to be more accurate. You want deeper soundstage, wider soundstage, etc etc, all that can be achieved by mix and match.
Buying secondhand cd's where the seller has written on the Inserts!. Or shops that put the sticky price labels on the Inserts also Instead of the plastic cases, that are Impossible to remove without defacing the Insert.
Sincere Apologies to Viridian for continuing the whingey, whiney, disgruntled, pee'd off, cheesed off, fed up to the back teeth peeves of hi-fi drudgery.
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