What Gear Has Disappointed You?

@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.
Instead,  I  have a Yamaha np-s303 network player at 1/10 of the price doing the job. It's app is super easy to use. 
I'm holding on to the Bryston player in the hopes that Bryston Canada will succumb to public preasure and develop and app/interface that is simple to use.  
I know this has been discussed on other threads and on other forums in the past.  I'm just hoping that Mr. Tanner is willing to reopen the topic for further discussion.

+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.

A decade plus a few years ago, adding home theater in a different room from my two- channel system, I purchased a Pioneer Elite top model receiver.  Just after it went out of warranty—~three years, I think, it died.  I called Pioneer for an RMA to pay to have it repaired and was told that the failure code indicated the main processor had gone bad and that the company that produced them had gone out of business … and that there was no replacement.  I was directed to my dealer to purchase a new Pioneer; end of conversation.  I did go to my dealer, who, saying he felt bad about my experience, sold me—allegedly at his cost and it was a very good price— a new, top line but second level Marantz, which has worked superbly ever since.  So, Pioneer Elite is off my preferred list.

Nuprime CDT-8 Pro transport...major problems with drawer and controls...Nuprime and Audio Advisor totally unresponsive, even though unit was under warranty..the unit did sound great when working though...