Pet audiophile peeves - name yours


1. Power supplies that are not the same size or finish as the preamp. Who decided this was a good idea?

2. Ridiculous and obvious snake oil salesman
kublakhan
That guy has the most amazing luck, he always seems to have "Hot Stampers"....... but I dont see his stuff flying off the shelf so it looks like most are too smart to play that game.
Yes I love those hot stampers whose got all of them? Mine are stamped when the master is cold and I end up with blobs of semi cool vinyl with a few traces of the tracks. Acutally I know what some of the inner dead space markings now mean but just because you are getting a 1a 1a doesn't mean it will make it the reall hot stamper status any time and anyplace the seller may by law declare this or that record to be a hot stamper. All I really care about is whetherv it sounds goodand I do think a goodly amount of heat should be present during the stamping process.
The one thing I forgot to add earlier was the sickening lowballer definition when they are saying the price is firm in fact because offering anything other than their asking is a lowball. I think you should not be told that the seller knows that his price is a very fair price. If they mean a genuine value then it it easy a buyer will pay that much. Thus It is worth what somone will pay for it period. If you are being conceptual none of the prices in high end are fair.

I'm still keen on the "hot stamper" seller here.

I am particularly amused with his listing for Steve Windwood's "Back in the High Life." He is asking $75 and has the chutzpah to show the "$5.99" price tag on the shrink wrap in his listing picture. That thing is so hot you'll need to grab it with oven mitts.
The only thing more pathetic then the seller in question is the poor guys who believe and pay him.