What is your most anal audio habit?

I have no anal audio habits, I'm one of the lucky perfect ones. Now if you ask my wife she'll tell you that leaving cd's or records lying on the shelf or against the cabinet without putting back where they belong. In due time dear, in due time. This is just my way to me, not a bad habit at all.

The closest anal habit I can think of when listening is when my butt itches and I scratch it. But you really didn't mean that kind of anal, did you?

As Driver and Abstract note ALL habits serve a purpose. Unfortunately it isn't always as obvious to the casual observer. Why does the baseball player spit 20 times between pitches or scratch his gonads for the world to see. We don't ask why, we accept it as part of the game.

I have 2. 1st is fanactically cleaning the contacts on everything. 2nd, is spending to much money on this stuff and not enjoying the music enough!

Clue, true, there are ESL which attract, but also others which repell dust. Also here the secret is the proper positioning....and Gun, I see you point about dynos. But I've not been introduced to S. Spielman and seem to have mislaid my keys for that darn time-machine. So I have to stick with my subs.

I very carefully clean my ears wirh moistened Q-Tips daily. Under the assumption that dirt gets in your ears and veils the sound a bit; it may be a little obsessive but costs nothing and can't hurt if you're careful.

After the maid somehow loosened my speaker cable connections while dusting or vacuuming,I find myself checking for spade to binding post connections every day out of habit.I've told the maid to leave the dust on my system but she is anal about cleaning and she says that's why I pay her and my wife loves her like family so I'm now an anal binding post tightener.