What is your most anal audio habit?

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.

The label orientation & the auto thread made me think about a one time incident when I worked at a tire shop while in school. As I was finishing up this guys car with 4 new tires he asked me to orient the valve stems so they would rotate together in the same position. I looked at him like he was nuts & he thought about it for a second & then figured out when he went around the first corner they would all be out of wack and simply said oh yeah, I guess that wouldn't work.

Not meant as a supercilious retort to those of you who orient your labels-you should see my tool box! (5 1/2' tall)

And I agree with Kevziek about the washing hands thing-it's something I learned before audio (photography).

I straighten the curtain behind the speakers so that the pleats are vertical to the floor... (this baffles me too, but I do it!)
Never bother about other curtains in the house; I systematically leave a "creative" mess around the house anyway (books , CDs, LPs,in piles; papers stacked all over the place); Go figure...

Greg, does it baffle you, because you are forming baffles with your curtain? Cheers,