What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive?

Maybe by taking too many steps to get to where I already knew that I'd end up. But even those 'mistakes' revealed more about the hobby and increased my depth of knowledge - even if it sometimes drained my bank account!

I bought into the hype and bought Tekton Double Impacts.  

I made many mistakes 7 years ago trying to create my audio system...

I read reviews and was deceived with many low cost products and 7 pairs of headphones i used no more......

Finally i take matter in my hand with listening experiments...3 years ago

To say a story short, i am no more gullible consumer and know that to create imaging, depth , soundstage, listener envelopment, natural timbre, any "relatively good pieces of gear" well chosen MAY do, IF after decreasing the electrical noise floor, and controlling vibrations/resonance, you STUDY acoustic with your ears and made simple experiments...

But people think that it takes a costly tube amplifier for example to create depth imaging....This is how superstitious consumers are....Price is for them a guarantee ...

And acoustic for them is a few costly panels you glue to the walls...a secondary addition to their branded name costly gear....

The worst mistake people could do is ignore acoustic ...

Who will believe that with 1/2 inch in less on a 6 inches straw added to an Helmholtz tubes with an aperture of less than 2 centimeters one can collapse the soundstage dramatically in a room? Or the opposite?

i know i did it....

Dont make any mistake study acoustic and psychoacoustic not the catalog of acoustic panels sellers....Quit upgrading and think....

@philbarone
I don’t believe you are extracting most of the benefit that the D.I.’s have to offer.
I’m fairly familiar with them having owned them for about 3 1/2 years.
They are not perfect, but they have the ability to perform pretty darn good overall, and are exceptional in certain areas. At their price point they are a great value.
I wonder what’s the likelihood that something is amiss with your pair.

I love the excitement of he chase and when inspiration strikes, I often make a fast move, especially if there’s a ‘deal’ to be had. I got hyped on boutique SET amps without knowing anything about them too soon in my audio journey and impulsively bought a $6k demo 211 amp, followed by a $4k matching pre to power my ill-advised klipsch forte iiis (bad match for my room).  I had crappy digital sources then (chromecast, then raspberry pi) and sold the 211 and pre for big loss a year ago before really bringing the system up to their level.  Still curious how good they really were/are.

My recent impulse buys have worked out better (wells audio cipher dac, graham audio ls5/5s), thankfully, because I know more now about my tastes and synergy.  But I like to jump on a deal and probably always will.