First Post- what not to do


Been lurking for a while and thought it would be instructive to start a post listing "what not to do" as relating to this hobby.
Mine---do not move CD player with discs inside.
Joe
jpwarren58
Do not listen to anybody on these forums ........
Yep, nailed it back about 30 posts ago....
lol
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Do NOT under any circumstances ever ever get your fingers across the speaker field coil output of an old Wurlitzer vacuum tube jukebox!
Don't place your speakers where they look best and presume that's where they will sound best.
Don't buy new tubes for your new tube amplifier before you even listen to it with the ones it came with.  
The first post from someone who is an authority on a subject should be offering that advice to anyone who can use it. We benefit only from those who share their wisdom, if in fact that wisdom is bonafide. 
Don’t go to an audio show with a usb thumb drive loaded only with Diana Krall and Jazz at the Pawnshop and ask it to be played in every room you step into.

If you don’t know how to load music onto a usb thumb drive, you should stop giving advice.

Your first 100 posts to the Audiogon forums shouldn’t be providing guidance or shilling a revolutionary new brand of cables from Minsk.
Do not walk into the house with an armful of LPs/Cds if your significant other is there. 
Don’t let your maid---I mean cleaning woman, or housekeeper, or whatever you call yours (I've never had one)---dust your turntable.
Do not change interconnect cable or speaker cables while amplifier is on.

I blew the fuse while touching interconnect.

Somebody blew the amplifier while changing speaker cables due to short.
Don't tug on Superman's cape, don't spit into the wind, don't pull the mask of the old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim
@ubderwaltzI am confused.  So I should not listen to what you just said?

LOL
Make sure your stylus arm lifter is set high enough to clear your heaviest record at lest 180 gram and accounting for warping. Don’t ask how I know. 
Don’t create posts with meaningless subject lines. For example: many subjects consist of just the name of a product or an item. 
buy gear based solely on a reviewer's opinion, without listening first yourself.
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