Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them?

Schiit Audio. I bought their little headphone amp a couple of years back for my son. So completely unlistenable. I don’t know if I got a bad one or what, but it should have never left their grounds. It just really turned me off of that brand.

Same experience for me.... Unlistenable....It takes 5 seconds....I selll it the day after and never look back to this brand....

I imagine that their newer products were better but i was never tempted to verify, especially after trying another cheap amplifier  that crush them at the same price....

Let me go back a few years....

I had a marantz 8b back in the 70s.   Through my Rogers LS3/5a, I knew I had died and gone to heaven.  Sold the 8b in the mid 80s, Parted with the Rogers around 2000.  I had a chance to listen to both (separately) in the past few years and could not understand what I saw (and heard) in either of them years ago. Hmmm.
Similarly, at that time I could not see what all the fuss about Maggies and electrostats was about.  Now I own Maggies and one of my best listening friends has a couple sets of Martin Logans.  I can’t imagine owning a box speaker again.  But, I still love EL34 tube amps in their modern versions.

and Wilson has switched to a silk dome tweeter and different voicing

Yes, yes they have. 

Is it too late to weigh in? This thread being 3 days silent.

see Erik, you start a thread with the best of intentions and it goes off the side rails...so let’s get back to beers... went on a 2 year Belgian/monk (thinking there must be a Thelonius connection) only to tire of the heaviness of Chimay although Duvel still holds its own.  recently exploring  the Sam Smith offerings.

after my Infinity Studio Reference Monitors, I thought the emit tweeters were overhyped and gave up on the brand. No matter what room or associated equipment, I couldn’t get satisfying sound.  Then last year spent some time with Bill of Miller Sound listening to a mid level Inifinty and couldn’t believe my ears.
awakened me to the possibility of hidden gold in used Infinity’s available “for a song”.
BTW, I agree with previous poster reg LG fridge, constant noises it makes ruins my audio sessions. Barely 14 months and already had a breakdown.

Brother Thelonius is in fact one of the best beers out there. :)

The Infinity floorstanding speakers were really kind of nuts.  The crossovers were designed before we had current simulation tools, so if you have them and can find an upgrade kit that re-thinks the crossover it is well worth doing.