There's a hilarious thread in the Audiogon Misc Forum, entitled "You might be an audiophile if... "Some excerpted answers...-If the power cord attached to your amplifier cost more than your amplifier-When someone asks you what kind of stereo you have and it takes twenty minutes to answer-You can hear the difference between the UPS, FedEx & postal truck Here's a shortened link to the entire thread... http://tinyurl.com/dll9sP.S. My apologies on the eBay Stereophile discount link, it was incomplete. Here is the Audioholics posting which will get you there... http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11937 Alan