Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home?

Thanks ...

The one who wrote "fascism free room " used exactly this expression here to stir a political debate or bait someone... I defeated his ignorant or twisted tactic by historical explanation... That was my goal... Anyway very few know about Bernard Mandeville deep genius in economics, psychological, and sociological science ... I always try to inform if i can ... 😊

Historical facts are interesting , political watchwords are useless.

@mahgister

I enjoy your deep dives into a variety of subjects. Admittedly, sometimes I have to scan over your comments due to time constraints.

As mentioned before, I am involved with several "unite", "detoxify" and "depolarize" groups (including my own), and those tidbits you insert now and then are helpful. And, yes, single-worded and/or truncated remarks designed to ambush "the other side" are great conversation killers. Which is the objective for those who use their high IQs to win debates rather than leveraging the asset to seek the truth

@jl35 When I was around 18 or 19, I upgraded from a $65 refurbished Pioneer receiver that I found at Sears to a $130 Yamaha receiver that my friend's dad was selling.  You guessed it, this thing reeked of cigarette smoke.  He had it in his garage where he and his dad would hang out and built RC airplanes and drink beer and smoke their arses off.  Even the mom was a heavy smoker.  I remember one day going over there with my friend and could not believe the walls on the inside of the house...YELLOW, but the paint was white!!!  It was disgusting.   But ask me if I cared.  It was a Yamaha!  Took it home and it took me about 3 months of spraying Windex (I didn't know any better) into a rag and wiping down the chassis with it.  I stopped smelling it, but the insides still stunk like hell.   Sweet sounding receiver, not so sweet smelling.  Cheers. 

No kidding! Good humored sarcasm, irony and facetiousness are totally lost on a lot of guys here

That's a fact. 

Jokes are not watchword in an already political hot context.

we smile at jokes, we rally behind watchword...

Do you sense the difference?

Or perhaps some use a watchword making a very bad joke , it can be the case here or you can rewrote this watchword as a joke... ...

But anyway my historical instructive post about fascism and communism common origin in  social techno cultism materialism with Mandeville will teach you something you did not know... Then thank me for the information which is very deep and important... I am only half joking here... 😊 I dont wait for your thanks... 😊

No kidding! Good humored sarcasm, irony and facetiousness are totally lost on a lot of guys here

That’s a fact.

       When my daughter was five;  I put a system together for her with a Technics integrated.

      An older child was visiting, turned every knob on the Technics to max and THEN pushed the Power button.     It was on FM and the kid had managed to find a nice spot between channels (White Noise galore).

      Before I could reach the room, she had taken out the right channel's output IC and educated/reminded me about a lot of other peoples' children.     

                       (Just another way kids can abuse equipment.)

       Don't want to smell your cat, dog, or tar/nicotine (never have bought a smoked-in car, either).

       I've always thought there were others out there, that felt as I do, thus: anything I've sold, far as things electronic (since the kids have grown), have been listed as: 'From a smoke, pet, child and vermin* free home'.

                            *No fleas, ticks, roaches or mouse turds, either.

        Can't help but feel: I'm not the Lone Ranger; when it comes to buying a CLEAN piece of electronic gear or cabling.

                        Couldn't care less about the virtue signalers' opinions!

                                          Happy listening!