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Your most disappointing purchase or audition?

I've had a few.

bought a Naim Nait 3. Loved it in the store. Returned it within a week- way forward at home

Brought home some CJ preamp to audition perhaps 22 years ago. Noisy as anything and a turn off transient destroyed a tweeter (though years later i bought a CJ 17LS2 which I thought was the finest preamp I ever heard in my home)

Auditioned a VPI table (HW19) in a store- the store just could not get the belt to stay on. Bought a Rega instead. This was in perhaps 1990.

Fortunately, I never really experienced buyers remorse say 6 months or more after settling on a piece of gear.

Finally, there have been too many speakers that got stellar write ups which I just didn't care for.
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knghifi
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I find these types of BEST or most disappointed threads are useless. Eventually all components ever produced will be posted.
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syntax
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Going by your extensive equipment list, I'm guessing you are a Dealer or Distributor who does not represent Magico....
I am a private consumer, no commercial interests. I did a long listening with those speakers and the result is written. I think it is important, that someone can write his personal opinion about something, we all know how the audiophile community works: 5 Audiophiles--> 6 opinions :-) and it is wrong to create personal conflicts about a commercial product which will be replaced sooner or later anyway. The real deal today was and is marketing, the worst turntable Design for me is Linn LP12 and they sold it very successfully. so, I am pretty lonely with my opinion about that unit...
melbguy1
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@Gpgr4blu, spoken like a true Wilson fanboi! Lol
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mapman
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Magico must be very sensitive to what is upstream. I have heard various models on a couple occasions and sound was top notch, very natural, nothing objective at all one could object to, although no product will please everyone.

In both cases, there was probably digits worth of gear in front of them, so I would expect anything at that price to sound absolute top notch, which they did.

Its more a value thing for me with Magico. I have never done a shootout, but I do not think top notch sound need cost that much. Nice products though!! SOme better values used I see these days. I think it is a line I could live with if I had to.
ebm
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Will let you know soon.
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