What is your most anal audio habit?

I very carefully clean my ears wirh moistened Q-Tips daily. Under the assumption that dirt gets in your ears and veils the sound a bit; it may be a little obsessive but costs nothing and can't hurt if you're careful.

After the maid somehow loosened my speaker cable connections while dusting or vacuuming,I find myself checking for spade to binding post connections every day out of habit.I've told the maid to leave the dust on my system but she is anal about cleaning and she says that's why I pay her and my wife loves her like family so I'm now an anal binding post tightener.

Being on the web at 10:00 p.m. on a SATURDAY night...

I wash my hands with Dawn before touching any of my equipment. Next, I avoid touching my face while listening, because doing so can get skin oils on one's hands, which can then get transfered to the equipment by touch.

Another thing is putting hand towels over equipment between listening sessions to avoid dust accumulation.

Now you know why everyone wants to buy my equipment when it goes up for sale.

Rlwainwright - I used to work at a used CD store. Your need to have the label oriented with the case is surprisingly common.