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What Gear Has Disappointed You?

While it's clearly not an absolute fact, we tend to have an expectation that a more expensive product should be better.  Within a given brand it really should be a fact, but because there's a wide range of factors in play when it comes to pricing it's not necessarily true when comparing different brands.  I think that it's fair to say that when we purchase a more expensive product we generally have an expectation that it'll perform better.  In the cases where our experience confirms this belief it can be the result of the product actually being better and/or some expectation bias. In a sense, it doesn't really matter which it is.

With this in mind, have you ever purchased a product expecting it to be superior only find that it was clearly inferior in your experience?

 

mceljo
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ozzy62
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Sonic Frontiers Power 2

Meadowlark Audio Shearwater HR

VAC PA 100/100

Aerial Acoustics 7T

Roman Audio Centurion

McCormack DNA-2

Cary Audio SLI-80

 

Those are some that come to mind right away.

 

 

 

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fuzztone
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Schiit DAC lasting < 3 years. They showed no interest in repairing it.

Chinese balanced with a display and remote same price. Check back in 3:years.

pmm
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Bought a new Rotel 975 cdp for $550, back in 1996, not cheap. 7 years later, the drawer went bad, controls unresponsive. This happened twice, in a three year time period, and had it repaired by two different techs. Well, as the saying goes- "the third time is a charm",  so I trashed it. I miss that player, it was pretty good sounding.

Bought, a used Rega Apollo, which lasted 2 years, until the ribbon cabble went bad. I then, bought a used Rega Saturn, which lasted a year, before its` ribbon cabble and lazer assy went bad. I had the Saturn repaired by a reputable tech, but eventually, has issues. Still have a cheap ol’ NAD 515, bought in 1995, still going strong.

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