I was a science teacher for 15 years and worked at a university for four, so I’ve heard it all, including that the earth is flat, chemtrails, and we never went to the moon.

If we restrict these silly things to those related to running Liquid Audio though, the silliest thing anyone ever said to me was when a customer told me I “stole his capacitors.”

I kid you not, I replaced 40-year-old electrolytic capacitors in a preamplifier for a 40-year-old and now black-listed customer and he accused me of stealing them. I swear this is true and no, you cannot make this stuff up.

This individual who I went out of my way to assist and spent far too long with failed to realise several points that matter when we accuse people of stealing dead capacitors:

• 40-year-old dead electrolytic capacitors have essentially no value, ever
• NEW electrolytic capacitors have very little value
• I own/stock thousands of premium new and NOS capacitors
• There is no old capacitor black market or way to make money ‘stealing’ old capacitors
• There are better things to steal like catalytic converters, diamonds, hi-fi equipment, etc
• Liquid Audio is one of the most trusted and respected businesses in the industry. I’ve never even stolen a chocolate bar!