Murphy s Laws for Audiophiles

Your system will sound flawless until a musician or audiophile has been invited to come listen. Then the system will either: (1) sound worse than it has anytime in the last 12 months. (2) Blow a major component so repair is impossible, (or possible only if it leaves no time for music). (3) The worst storm in 100 years will hit, making every recording sound like it was mixed in a rain Forest. (4) The person visiting likes X software, and you have exactly three pieces of music that fit that description. (5) All of these problems will occur at once, or to some degree, DIRECTLY proportional to: (1) the importance of the visitor. (2) Their difficulty in arranging for the listening session. (3) The total distance in miles they have traveled to arrive at your home.

Your system will never sound better than it does the week before your audiophile buddies stop by to listen to it after you've been gloating on about the latest tweek.About 15 minutes before they show up at the door, you will make an insignificant toe-in adjustment to the speaker which will result in a nasty sibilance,glare,hardness, a near total collapse of soundstage and an odd suckout in the upper mid-bass.Out of politeness, your friends will not say anything negative about it but instead will give you faint praise about "how nice the system sounds,considering...".
You will not discover what went wrong until another week has passed.

As soon as you purchase an audio component, another exact model is listed at 20% less cost.

You buy company X's $10,000 speakers and your audiophile buddy then buy's company X's $25,000, some times you can't win.

1) Two weeks after you receive your amp back from being repaired, the manufacturer is offering a to die for- has to be done at the manufacturer- upgrade.
2) Your cat will bypass the $200 scratching post from hell (with the cat nip upgrade) and head straight for the speakers.