I feel I am amongst friends and can now share a particularly sad story before I knew better ….
Some years back I had an AV installer put up my new TV and surround speakers .
I bought some Chord Sarsen speaker cable - mostly because it was thin and could be run alongside the carpet grippers.
When the work was finished I was horrified to find that the installer hadn’t followed the direction arrows on the cable (this sounds ridiculous now even as I type it).
I took issue with the installer who (unsurprisingly) looked baffled at my rantings.
I even wrote to Chord to get some reassurance that this wasn’t going to screw everything up.
I realise now that all of this sounds completely MAD , but this is the paranoia that these snake oil companies create and which the HiFi press exacerbate amongst uniformed audio-idiots like I was - neurotic about ever little detail - even if it doesn’t actually matter!
Please don’t judge me - I am over it and have moved away from the dark side