Dumbest reason you were drawn....


What is the dumbest reason you were drawn to consider a piece of equipment? After all, before you've gotten to hear any of this stuff you've got to decide WHAT you're going to audition and/or buy. So come on, swallow your pride and spill!

I'll go first: It was that damn blue light in my 5.1 and 7.1 Citation amps. I was about 25 when I first saw their equipment and I thought it looked wayyyy cool! I decided that I just had to have that slick looking piece of equipment. So I gave them a listen looked into the build quality, etc. and liked what I heard. When Citation went belly up and I had more money a few years later I jumped. However, if it wasn't for that stupid blue light I don't think I'd have given the Citations nearly as much attention..... I feel like I've got the brain of a moth.
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Flash back nearly 40 years.. I bought a pair of Audio Project speakers which were Bose 901 knockoffs (looked just like them) and when I opened the pair the wood was laying loose from one speaker. The store, Lafayette Stereo outside Baltimore, intimated that maybe I had dropped them and were willing to give me a new one but refused a return. They were terrible, shrill sounding and I was happy to have had them stolen from my apartment sometime later.
I bought an entire Nakamichi Series 7 thinking it was the greatest audio & I learned from that.
A purple light! You've got a purple light, 4est?!? Damn you! Now I want a purple light.

Follow the light Aaron, follow the light.... why is it that I'm so attracted to these stupid perty lights? Probably because I've got the brain of a Moth. :-)

These are great stories guys. Keep'em coming!

PS-Why do I have this feeling that audio equipment manufacturers will be following this thread and taking notes?