Most expensive Audio disapoinment?

I liked the Elcasset. thought it would really take off. It didn't. Even after a second try... then it was called a DAT. Well, they looked alike.

Preceeding that foible was the off shore invasion of the "Quadraphonic" receiver and eight track player which played 4ch 8 track tapes. A lovely affair. Just no software. I sold mine as soon as I returned to the States.

But the biggest 'white elephant' was the very first auto reverseing casset deck. Akai made one. I think I bought the only one they made cause I never saw another.

the player would FLIP the entire casset over physically and then start playing again... But you had to put a short piece of 'sensing' tape onto the casset, so the machine would know it was at the end of the tape. Dumb machine.

Dumber me for getting it. It just seemed like a good idea at the time.

mine is not really audio equipment, but it is a disappointment. i recently bought a device that is supposed to block moronic posts in otherwise worthwhile internet forums. its not really working well at the moment, but you'll probably know when i get it going...

A few years ago my wife and I were considering relocating and downsize from a house to a condo in the city and stupid me, I should have waited before trading in a great pair of Thiel CS7s for Dynaudio Contour 3.0s. I liked the Dyns for about a year and then I realized how much the accuracy of the Thiels was under my skin, so eventually I traded those Contour 3.0s for a pair of CS6s, which I still have and have been happy with ever since. But I am now very careful about retiring or trading components that sound great. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Hey Jeff, you better make sure that device has the latest firmware update, heheh. Nice system by the way. :•)

Nice Clown nose, Gunbei ;)