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Every make a purchase you truly regret?

Look, we've all done it. We read about that special piece of equipment that catches our eye. Every review seems to be glowing--never a discouraging word. So, after several weeks of reading about it but with no real opportunity to hear it, we decide to "just do it," and buy it, probably selling a vital piece of equipment to afford the new piece.

So we buy the new gear, plug it into the system, and bamm! It just plain stinks! No matter what tweaking we try, we can't seem to grow to like it. Now we're stuck, feeling like a "Class A" chump, another victim of the audio press.

Question: If this situation has ever happened to you, did you try to go back to what you had originally, or did you press on, trying something else altogether? Anyone ever start over completely?

Me? I always seem to try something else altogether, and it's starting to get expensive. However, I'm considering starting over completely. I mean, get rid of EVERYTHING and start from scratch. Any thoughts?
crazy4blues
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dekay
5,668 posts
 
Yes, I recently purchased a bunch of stuff @ a garage sale down the street.

Some Bob guy (who dresses like a hillbilly) said that they were all high end prototypes (Snowporch preamp, Pssst Audio power amp, a Mockport TT and speakers, a pair of No-neck subs and a bunch of TGIF cables - pretty sure that a local restaurant makes these).

Hate to complain as the whole shootin match was only $12.50, but...

Looks like he pulled all of the tubes from the preamp & the amp - so I haven't fired them up yet, the TT is missing its multi play spindle and the speakers/subs ended up being way to big for our living room (they looked tiny when Bob was standing next to them).

So that it's not a complete loss I'll see if I can trade all of the cables for a To-Go order from TGIF's (this way I don't have to leave a tip:-). Maybe they will even throw in some complimentory tater skins?
taters
1,149 posts
 
Audio Research CD-2 boring and overpriced!
corona
132 posts
 
Crazy4blues
The problem is in the cables. Do you know what "room temperature super-conductivity is?" It took over a dacade of hard research to initiate the beginning stages of this mind blowing technology. The advancement is created by generating a null or void in the electromagnetic field between the AC transmission lines;within the audio cable's architecture. You can change audio gear till pigs begin to fly;until this advancement is implemented your just pissing into the wind.
rzemkoski
87 posts
 
Wilson Witts. An impulse buy that I hope I'll never do again. Replaced my Straightwire Maestros with Purist Audio Colossus to take the edge off the ear slicing highs. The "one note bass" problem remained no matter where I positioned them (even after spending 3000. for the 2 version).
A reviewer in Fi said it best when he stated that the signature of these speakers is so pronounced that any music you play tends to sound alike. No wonder they are discontinued.
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
Lots of stuff. Since most were used, and I seemed to be able to resell most of them at a profit, no harm done.
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