Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1"

Oh don't get me started on the audiophools :-) One of my favourites is 'monocrystaline copper cable' Since any bending of said cable is going to disrupt the crystal latice, presumably it has to come pre-shaped to fit thr room, right? There are some things that clearly do make a difference to the sound, for good, scientific, reasons. Things like correct head alingment and bias of an anlogue tape recorder. No corrosion on the connectors. The design of the filter after the DAC in a digital system (some are downright terrible). And there are things that make me ROFLMAO. Things like cutting a corner off the amplifier frontpanel (an odd number of corners sounds better). Having an odd number of grounding clips on the carpet (so that the 'bad charge' has nmore to flow away down and less to flow back up). Sticking electret foils on the mains plugs. Yes, I've seen all of these and more... I rememebr once seeing inside a so-called top-end CD player. It contained the cheapest plastic Philips CD mechanism, and the Philips chipset. Alas the PCB ssemed to have been laid out by an idiot. Decoupling capacitors are far too far away from the ICs. Capacitors that the Philips datasheet said had to be SMD and mounted under the DIL-packaged chip were conventional components a good centimetre from the pin. And so on.... -tony