What about a product can irritate you?

IEC's - aftermarket power cords never fit tight so you wonder when is one of these monsters going to fall out while jammin and send a tweeter across the room.

One little pet peeve I have about products is that they will sometimes suddenly perform miraculously immediately before totally failing. You go off to bed saying to yourself 'wow, the stereo really played music tonight'. The next day it blows up on you. If it was performing like rubbish the pain would be much less severe, and you would use it as an excuse to just buy something new anyway.

I know i'll get massacred with this one, but here goes. It's the extreme high prices of some ultra-hi-end audio. Can a $10,000 unit really be that much better than say a $1500 one? Don't get me wrong, I am not critisizing the that hi-dollar stuff - it just rubs me the wrong way. I used to collect coins, but I got turned off the hobby when some coins sold at over $1 million for ONE coin. (Of course maybe I should shut up - I own a $10,000 and $8500 lawn mowers - LOL - but I am a commercial cutter.

hey guys,thanks for teaching me the easy way to open new CDs,,,life is better now ,,all these years of buying CDs and i never figured that out!

Unhinging the CD case is a novel approach, but is removing the sticky tape that big of a deal? I admit I can't do it quickly without the aid of a blade, so I keep a pen knife handy. If you try to remove the tape lengthwise along the edge of the case, you'll have problems. I use the pen knife to peel up the tab at one end of the case. Then it's easy to peel up the tape along the first face of the case, then lift the whole thing off the edge of the case and then the other side in one piece.

Then I ball up all these lengths of tape, sticky side out, and use them to clean my stylus and de-lint my clothes so I look sharp while listening.