8. The component they are asked to review is rumored to spontaneously catch on fire.

7. The component they are asked to review sounds so bad that it is a real drag that it doesn’t have a reputation for catching on fire.

6. They are asked to review some very revealing speakers and they reveal that their system sucks.

5. They are asked to review $100K amps and they have never had an amplifier in their system worth more than $10K – and they have just been accused of never having a bad thing to say about anything they review.

4. They are asked to review and say something intelligent about a component even though the rest of their system is composed of a hodge-podge balancing act of overly bright and overly congested components.

3. They are asked to review a speaker that goes down to a middling 2 ohm impedance and their personal amps are known to only be able to drive speakers if they are above 4 ohms.

2. They drop and or in some manner break the component they have been asked to review and it is too late to send it back and get a working one before the review is due to be written.

and the most worst day possible is:

1. They say something bad about the Audio Asylum… in public.