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[Tony Duell]

> What kind of people believe in this crap?

Oh don't get me started on the audiophools :-)

> Do they replace the wiring in their house as well to prevent 
> micro-movements of the wires?

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