High wattage ss amplifiers with good (not great) reviews.
Also I switched my utility from regular power to green power and could tell no difference.
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?
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@bigtwin - I took the negative approach because it's hard know if the improvement is a result of truly being real or if it's just different colored by expectation bias. If someone paid for a product that they expected to be better and found that it wasn't, it seems like expectation bias would not be a factor as the result was the opposite of what was expected. Ideally, I was looking for responses that said I had a $1000 component and then purchased a $3000 component and found that it wasn't an improvement. |
I love all my other Bryston gear (14BSST, BCD-1, BDA-3, BP-26 PRE-AMP) but the interface (Manic Moose) for the BDP-3 Network player is so unappealing to use, that mine has been sitting unused for more than a year. |
+1 @okhunter
I gave up on the BDP 3 for the same reason. I got tired of waiting for Bryston to do something about it. I own the DAC3 and use with with a Melco N 100 and a CA CXN60. .
The Bryston optical player was a piece of crap as well. |
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