What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby?

Never any costly mistakes, just "happy little accidents."
(Bob Ross) RIP

My costliest mistake was not stopping the purchases before I spent all my disposable income from savings. And, secondly not finding someone locally (maybe a knowledgeable dealer) who new audio (since I was a newbie back when) to help me with system-building instead of the trial and error I went through on my own buying here at the Gon. Couldn’t see that the money was dwindling slowly. Didn’t realize what I had done until it was too late. Burn and churn was what I did. Now the disposable income is spent. I can only afford small purchases - for a couple $hundred here and there. My days of spending several $grand here and there are all over. I have to look to retirement with significantly lowered savings. I spent above my means without understanding it. You newbies in the pursuit of high quality sound reproduction should learn from my experience.

Last year I moved house.  For months after the move I couldn't understand why my sound quality was apparently worse than before.  I blamed the acoustics of my new room.  

Only when doing some REW testing did it come to light that both my Seas tweeters were pressed in.  $900 a pair, plus installation.  I have no idea how this happened.  Could have been a visiting child or dog - but most likely it was clumsy carrying by me.

That being said, the new tweeters are great and my Kudos Super 20's sound better than ever.

drkingfish32 outposts

Your response to my attempted humorous answer (with a lot of truth in it) is completely uncalled for.

You have attacked another post on this thread. Is that how you roll?

Saying to someone their manhood or charter is deeply in question, aka horribly flawed, is over the top.

Semper fidelis.

@drkingfish,

What, in Gods name is your problem?  You spewed quite a bit of BS in your post.  Get up on the wrong side of the bed or are you always this way?   You seem very angry, perhaps some Anger Management Classes are in order?   I don’t think your drama is helpful or warranted.