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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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09-06-14: Tubes108
Per Atmasphere components. Posting in a public forum personal correspondence demonstrates Ralph's lack of integrity.
I disagree, he only posted what he wrote to you.

Products as poorly made and as problematic as the Atmasphere amps and preamp I owned are solid reasons to mention them in a thread about “your most disappointing purchase.”
I agree, but that ship has sailed. At this point I believe a lot of people wish you guys would take it offline. I don't think either one of you can change anyone's mind by posting more of the same.
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Yes- Duesy is correct, but for the sake of this thread, wanna argue about it?

Me neither
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Tubes105 still won't say when he bought it. I'm done.
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Tubes105 also brings up that the most logical reason for any ulterior motives behind his posts are that he is a sleeper agent for another company. Yet he has posted no evidence in his defense of that possibility, so motive is still a gray area. Maybe his story is true, maybe he does have an ax to grind, or maybe he just has something to gain financially.

Sounds like we had better call Mulder and Scully in on this case. ;^)
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"Sounds like we had better call Mulder and Scully in on this case"

Now that's one of the best thoughts Brought out on this thread
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