Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig

Never, and I mean never, buy a used turntable unless you can go pick it up and have it demo'd to be fully functional and operational, including the cartridge checked out with the 'track record', before you hand over the cash.

Good one hotmail.

It can be hard to avoid that one when everyone is saying why the stuff you have that you think sounds good and actualy leverages modern technology is inherently flawed in some way because of the evli conspiracy to deny people good sounding music. Of course vinyl and tube gear is the exception to this, because these are the reference standard from years gone by when everything was so much better, especially technology and those evil conspirators started plotting the demise of good sound.

Elizabeth nailed it for me.

Here are my Top Snafus that I've done. I know it is common sense to you all but it wasn't for me at the times.

1) Speaker placement and Room Treatments for your listening space.

2) Getting caught up in the hype/reviews/marketing of a product.

3) Rushing into buying something.

4) Overspending on repairs of vintage gear.

5) Rushing into making repairs/upgrades of vintage gear without doing some legwork first. Cleaning the item yourself first, doing a lot of critical listening, researching more on the net, etc etc.

6) Spending money on nicer equipment only to neglect spending some money on decent cabling.

7) Foolishly trusting pro audio techs or part stuffers to repair home audio gear.