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The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase

This is tongue in cheek people, so let’s keep the replies light shall we?
The 5 Stages of Making a Bad Audio Purchase:

1. Denial: "My system, which before was of course totally awesome, is now totally awesomer! The sound stage isn’t just 3 dimensional any more, it is 4 dimensional. I can feel fingers sliding across guitar strings, drums are like my head is against the snare, and the bass goes 10hz lower ...."

2. Anger: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T BELIEVE MY SYSTEM WENT FROM AWESOME TO AWESOMER!!!. You obviously have a crap system, your ears are crap, you are just jealous."

3. Bargaining: "Hey, this gadget will make your already awesome system totally awesomer! 60% of MFR list is a great deal for it! That’s 40% off and you don’t even have to pay tax. I am only selling it because I am upgrading to the even awesomer version 2. My loss is your gain."

4. Depression: "I can’t believe I spent $5,000 on this thing ....."

5. Acceptance: "Sure, 75% off list is fair."
atdavid
atdavid OP
736 posts
 
allenf1963,
But there are many documented case of paranoia :-)
winoguy17
1,085 posts
 
 Did someone say wine?
maxking
9 posts
 
We are all addicts spending our money to get an ever-elusive high.  The fact that you are reading this (and possibly commenting) on this thread entitles you to membership in this exclusive club.

BTW, most of us (including myself) are spending enormous amounts of money on very simple electronics.   
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elliottbnewcombjr
5,197 posts
 
Clearly we should toke or drink wine/scotch/bourbon/ale prior to evaluating potential purchases/improvements. 

Funny thing is, alcohol affects/reduces our hearing, which is why drinkers get progressively louder.  Then, ears hear frequencies differently at reduced volume.

Thus, the tone control comment is brilliant.

Tokers don't get louder, time shifts though. That must be why TT have speed/pitch controls. I just realized, we need remote speed controls, perhaps with syncronous low volume eq.

btw, to engineer and sell incredibly complex and expensive TT without dust covers indicates to me they are designed by drinkers not tokers.
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