
We wanted a monkey butler and bought one off eBay. Imagine our surprise when we found it was just an ordinary monkey with rabies. Worse: It had no butler training at all. Tell us about your duff technology purchases.
Thanks to Moonbadger for the suggestion
( , Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:51)
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A mate of mine worked at a HiFi show, and while setting up the equipment they realised that they'd forgotten to bring the ultra-expensive, de-ionised copper speaker cables. No time to get proper replacements, so they nipped into a nearby DIY store and bought a reel of that three-core orange mains cable that you get on lawnmowers, hedgetrimmers etc. Cost about £1 a metre, if I remember correctly -- compared to about £80 a foot or whatever the "real" stuff was.
In the entire four-day show, with some of the country's most obsessive audiophiles visiting their demo room, they got nothing but compliments for the sound quality.
( , Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:24, 2 replies)

anyone who discribes themselves as an audiophile is going to be a bit of a tit
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