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Yet another subscription to a "niche" audio magazine.
Once you've been identified by your family and friends as an audiophile, they might try to give you gifts to support your habit. What would be the <I>worst</I> audiophile gift you could imagine?
I could find a use for almost any audio product, but a couple come to mind as having no value to me. The iPod would be the runner-up. It may not be the worst or least reliable MP3 player, but it's part of an unacceptable closed-loop system. I would have a hard time selling one in good conscience, but I probably could get close to retail value for one on eBay. That would make Bose speakers the champion of useless gifts. I've never heard any I could listen to for more than a minute.